Bangku Mahoni

Saya terbiasa menggunakan fasilitas trotoar selama ini di Jakarta. Entah kenapa kok rasa-rasanya trotoar di sini tidak user friendly. Usabililty yang buruk. Sejujurnya saya seneng jalan kaki secara saya males berolahraga. Jadi aktifitas yang satu ini dapat dikatakan ’sambil menyelam minum air’. Namun kok fasilitas buat para pejalan kaki kayaknya nggak digarap serius. Saya bayangkan Jepang ato NY yang trotoarnya nyaman buat para pejalan kaki. Hal ini secara tidak langsung juga akan mengurangi penggunaan kendaraan pribadi (eh, betul nggak sih).

Saya sebenarnya sudah lama pengen kirim surat masukan ke Bang Yos apa Pemprov DKI tentang pengalaman saya sebagai pejalan kaki dan penghuni a.k.a pendatang di kota besar Jakarta ini. Finally, kemaren nulis juga surat ke Bang Yos via website. Ini saya copy-paste dari postingan saya.

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Friday (06-02-2007), it was a heavy day. Jakarta was sinking slowly but sure. Everybody didn’t go to work. Some had to take care of their houses. Some had so indulged for going to work on an aquoeus street. Some had traped in the middle of the flood. And several people indulged to go home since it’’s heavy rained. Like me. I had already slept at the office. So, i automatically prepared working in next morning when Jakarta had its first flood. So if I went home the nite before, i would certainly couldn’t (or won’t) go to office at crowded wet Friday morning.

At Sunday (08-02-2007), I went with several friends around Jakarta. I felt that i’d do something. Anything. Then we agreed to bring something to refugee. We headed to Petamburan as a friend had referred there. Not much we couldnt help them. But refugee in Petamburan has been lacking of supplies such as food and clean water. So I hope it meant to them. I wrote it here.

From the TV news i knew that the government was too slowly to act.
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