Jakarta office hours to be regulated

January 16th, 2009 alaksir Posted in Current events, Indonesian news in English |

Jakarta office rats, clocking in and clocking out won’t be the same as they are now. After forcing our kids to forget about breakfast start school at 6.30 in the morning, next month the city administration is going to start regulating office hours around the city.

As a prelude to this, next week you will start seeing propaganda communication materials designed to make you conform with the new rule.

If it is news to anyone, traffic in this city is getting out of control, and this is probably the first time the governor will have to do something about it, as he will very likely face the political consequence of not doing anything about the traffic gridlock in the next election. At least Deputy Governor Prijanto admits this much:

“I have to persevere to enact this regulation, because this is the trust given to me.”

Is he saying that Governor Fauzi Bowo is charging him with taking care of the traffic business? Hear that? That’s the sound of the Governor saying, “Gotcha!”

Well at any rate, if this thing gets a go ahead, this is how office hours will be arranged next month:

Private sector offices in Central and North Jakarta will start at 7.30 am, because according to government consultant PT Pamintory Cipta, 45.28 percent of offices at Central Jakarta and 47.64 percent at North Jakarta already begin their office hours at 7.30. For those at West and East Jakarta, office hours will start at 8.00 am. 59.93 percent offices at West Jakarta and 61.34 percent at East Jakarta won’t have to change anything. South Jakarta offices will have to start their office hours at 9.00 am, and almost 51 percent offices there won’t need to change anything.

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