Private vehicles in Jakarta must pass an exhaust emissions test and receive a certification sticker next year, or risk the owners getting fined. Budirama Natakusumah, head of the city's Environment Management Board (BPLHD), said the board was making all the necessary preparations to implement a bylaw on air pollution and quality control next year, but added no date had been set for it. The bylaw stipulates owners of vehicles without emissions test stickers will be fined a maximum of Rp 2 million (US$180). However, Budirama said the law would initially be limited to private vehicle owners.

"In the long run, the bylaw will be applicable to owners of all kinds of vehicles. We implement it step by step," he told The Jakarta Post.

"Currently, we are still coordinating with both the transportation agency and the police to prepare the necessary technical aspects of the bylaw, such as increasing the number of referral emissions test workshops and mechanics." There are currently 238 such workshops, with 568 mechanics.

Source:Carlines2008-6.57
VECC December 25, 2008