Questioning Rate Increases
Tuesday, July 2, 2002
By raising the rates of economy class transport, the government effectively nullifies its function to serve the people. The government is simply becoming a seller of services and the people its buyers.
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ARATE increase is a rate increase, however the government justifies it. Effective July 1, 2002, the government is raising the rate of economy class transportation, a decision taken when the price of fuel is going down. What irony. It is all the more bitter because people at the lower rung of the economic ladder can hardly afford it. Just imagine, the rate of the electric train (KRL) plying the Jakarta-Bogor-Tangerang-Bekasi (Jabotabek) ro
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