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08/04/12

Taken from The Jakarta Post, Wednesday, March 16. 2011

1)        Commuters prefer staying in town to battling traffic

It appears Jakarta’s ever-worsening traffic and the high cost of commuting is prompting some commuting Jakartans to stay in the center of town, separated from their loved ones.

Ardy Putra, a consultant with a family living in Sunter, North Jakarta, stays in a rented room in Sudirman, Central Jakarta. He said he made the move to reduce his commuting costs and avoid the terrible snarls on the roads to downtown Jakarta. “I decided to rent a room at a boarding house in Sudirman a year ago so I could save time and money”. He told The Jakarta Post recently. The 30-year-old Ardy said that from the rented room he only had to walk 10 minutes to get to his office. “Imagine if I had to leave everyday from my house in Sunter, it might take one or two hours to get here,” he said. The move to Sudirman actually may not have reduced his overall cost of living, but it has saved him a lot of time, Ardy said. “At least I don’t get old on the street,” he said. Traffic in the city is a major headache for the majority of Jakartans.

As of December 2010, there were more than 11 million vehicles in Jakarta: 9 million motorbikes, 3 million cars and 63.000 vehicles for public transportation. According to one’s estimation, 1.500 new motorcycles and more than 500 new cars are introduced to city’s streets every day. It has been predicted that by some time in 2011 there will be 12 million privately owned vehicles clogging the capital’s roads. Experts have warned that total gridlock could occur by 2014 if the rate of vehicle ownership continuous at current rates.

Traffic in Jakarta is said to cost the city between Rp. 281 trillion (US$3 billion) and Rp. 46 trillion. The motorious congestion also causes losses of at least Rp. 9,7 trillion because of lost productivity, while looses related to health reached Rp. 5,8 trillion and public transportation owners suffered Rp. 1,9 trillion in losses.

Vera Y.S., an employee at a private company in Central Jakarta, said she decided to rent near her office in Karet because she had given up after the traffic seemed to get worse by the day. “My family lives in Cinere, Depok, which is actually not too far from Jakarta but you know I had to spent four and a half hours each day to drive to and from my office. I was exhausted from just driving to and from the city,” she said. Four years ago she decided that enough was enough and moved into a boarding house near her office. The move was simply to save time and money, she said. She is single after all. But the money Vera saves from her shorter commute goes to financing the high cost of living in downtown Jakarta. “This is like a cross subsidy,” she said. For others, money is not an issue.

Alfian, who rents a room in Kebon Kacang, Central jakarta, said he was not really concerned about saving money living in downtown Jakarta. “I am more concerned with the energy that I can save compared with if I go on living in Depok,” he said. It now takes only 15 minutes of walking for him to get to the office, and living in downtown also offers a lot of perks, Alfian said. “Jakarta certainly has more places to hang out than Depok,” he said.   –JP/Irawaty Wardany-

Cohesion analysis:

1.      Substitution

a.       Imagine if I had to leave everyday from my house in Sunter, it might take one or two hours to get here.

-          The word “it” replace the sentence before.

b.      According to one’s estimation, 1.500 new motorcycles and more than 500 new cars are introduced to city’s streets every day. It has been predicted that by some time in 2011 there will be 12 million privately owned vehicles clogging the capital’s roads. Experts have warned that total gridlock could occur by 2014 if the rate of vehicle ownership continuous at current rates.

-          The word “it” refers to the sentence before.

2.      Ellipsis

a.       Traffic in the city is a major headache for the majority of Jakartans.

-          Jakartans here means as the whole people who lived in Jakarta.

b.      Ardy Putra, a consultant with a family living in Sunter, North Jakarta, stays in a rented room in Sudirman, Central Jakarta. He said he made the move to reduce his commuting costs and avoid the terrible snarls on the roads to downtown Jakarta.

-          He refers to the Ardy Putra.

c.        The move to Sudirman actually may not have reduced his overall cost of living,

-          Sudirman here means as the room which is rented by his family.

3.      Reference

a.       As of December 2010, there were more than 11 million vehicles in Jakarta: 9 million motorbikes, 3 million cars and 63.000 vehicles for public transportation.

-          here we know that vehicles in Jakarta support by example of it, there are motorbikes, cars, and public transportation.

4.      Conjunction

a.       The move to Sudirman actually may not have reduced his overall cost of living, but it has saved him a lot of time, Ardy said.

-          But as conjunction that is explained contradicty between two clauses.

b.      he said. It now takes only 15 minutes of walking for him to get to the office, and living in downtown also offers a lot of perks, Alfian said.

-          And here means as conjunction which is show the same position between two clauses. Or the same meaning in the sentence.