Toll road rates up. Photo ST.
While most businesses are fighting to stay alive and jobs are being lost all over town because of the biggest slump in tourism in years on the island, the Bali Mandara Toll management has decided to increase toll rates for some categories of vehicle.
The new adjustment will be applied at midnight, December 8, 2017.
Management explained that the adjustment schedule was delayed since November 1, 2017.
The calculation is based on a combination of the old rates and the present inflation rate. Bali’s inflation rate for the last two years was 5.89%. So the new rates for the car using the toll will increase Rp 500 to Rp 11,500. Meanwhile, the motorcycle rate will still be the old rate of Rp 4,500.
The President Director of PT Jasamarga Bali Tol (JBT), Akhmad Tito Karim, stated that these new rates follow the Law No. 38/2004 on Roads and the Government Regulation No. 15/2005 about the toll road. (Obviously without too much regard to what is happening to the economy around them. Ed.)
“According to the law, toll users must pay toll rates. The income will be used for toll services, return on investment, maintenance, and development,” he said to kabar24.com on Tuesday.
actually they should raise the taxes on profits in the next 6 months….it will have the same effect!!!! LOL
Also, just in time for the forced traffic diversions to the toll road because of the newly started airport intersection tunnel construction.
Who cares? How many times a day do you use the toll-road?
Well that would depend on where you live and work
People won’t have a choice, for the tunnel construction you will be forced to detour to the toll road!
Seminyak Edits Yes, back and forth every day by car, thus having to pay 2 x Rp. 500,- / total Rp. 1,000,- more surely requires a change of lile-style 😉
I think any biz in town would love to be able to put up their prices 5% right now – doubt it. It’s more like put them down 50%
Stuart Beat Indeed, we lowered our (room) rates 65% recently, just to catch some guests 😉
Marcel Paul Luitze, sure for people that are used to using the toll road, it’s not that bad. The point I’m making, for people that otherwise wouldn’t need to take the toll road, but will now be forced to do so because of the tunnel construction, it may not be in their monthly budget to be forced to pay toll fees. As far as I understand, to get to Nusa Dua from the airport, you have to divert to Benoa Toll entrance, and go that way, you can’t just hang a right at the airport intersection. Not to mention workers on a minimumal monthly wage, even on a motorbike, Rp4,500 x 2 per work day can eat into their monthly budget a great deal.
Which people are forced? Until now the traffic issue in there is not existent and the toll IS NOT ACCESSIBLE for those coming from airport with car or truck.
Paolo Bali I read that they will be forcing you to take the toll when tunnel construction starts, for example, from the airport to get to Nusa Dua or Bukit, the detour will be via Jalan Raya Kuta, then you travel all the way to Benoa Harbour and take the toll road to Nusa Dua.
https://coconuts.co/bali/news/alternative-routes-mapped-construction-bali-airport-underpass/
To many times
Sorry, but this is NOTHING compared with the shitstorm hitting imports. Any business using imported goods is looking at greatly increased cost of up to 25 %!
Source?
At the moments i paid 60% for machine spare parts.
Arlo Sinclair Ask around. We are dealing in sound systems and desperately looking for alternatives as ALL our suppliers are raising their prices on imports. We are designing speakers ourselves but components are still from Italy.
Ian Johansson this crap administration wants you to start ordering your parts from downtown Jawa. Bloody redicouluse .iam done with Joko
Ask around, great source Ian. Lol
And it does open doors to the local market just like the booze industry
Booze is a little easier to produce locally than high end electronics!
Herling Untu W In our case that would be Sinar Baja in Surabaya. And we do sometimes. 🙂
Ian Johansson RE: High end electronics. Apparently Jokowi is pushing for that industry to pick up its game here in Indo
Maybe that could be an opportunity
Ian Johansson and they cant even do that.
Stuart Beat I think China pretty much rules that market. Difficult to beat. Also, with the appalling standards of education and lack of encouragement to study hard in Indonesia, that goal could be decades away.
Meanwhile, Tourism seems to be one of the things Indonesia could do REALLY well. Tons of amazing locations and a generally friendly population.
Ian Johansson Well they definitely won’t get anywhere sitting on their hands and doing nothing. I’m not a fan of protectionist policy but somebody could see an opportunity in this whole import mess and make a zillion bucks out of it. You got a soldering iron?
Yup, because we can
Easy solution, if you dont like the way the island operates…..go home
moron…
Knob
Lovely
Well don’t travel on them
Everybody can have an opinion Ellie. This is my home and there is a fuken lot I do not like the way things operates. Especially with the poor, innocent and uneducated.
The toll road is a RIP OFF. Owned by Corrupt bastards, with none of the money going the people.
Ellie Ian I don’t like how you bully people on Facebook. Perhaps you should tone it down…or are you going to bully me as well?
Hey Mike if 1 dollar to much for you to ride the toll ..try going anywhere else and get the same deal
While the Service is less!
Cos in western countries the toll road money goes to the people??? Come back to reality