Busloads of Woe

Transportation businessmen support the termination of imported second-hand buses. Wanted: A total solution and government support.

January 4, 2005

INSTEAD of becoming anxious, Aip Syarifuddin is happy. This despite the fact that the government’s plans to stop the import of second-hand buses are related to his livelihood as a transport businessman. Furthermore, the Head of the Land Transport Organization (Organda) of Jakarta immediately sent a letter to the Minister of Industry last Tuesday. “We ask that the second-hand bus policy be evaluated,” he said.

In 2003, Minister

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