LAST Wednesday morning was an annoying dawn for some people who live on the outskirts of Jakarta but work in the city. On their way to the tollgate of the Jakarta Outer Ring Road (JORR), they were shocked by a massive traffic jam. From the directions of Bekasi, Bogor, and Serpong, tens of thousands of cars snaked up to 3 kilometers to Jakarta.

That wasn’t the only shock. At the tollgate, they were “blown away” by the sudden and sharp incr