Indonesia’s president awarded the winners of the nationwide city competition in urban transport

Mayors from 71 cities and districts in Indonesia gathered Tuesday, April 28 at the annual ceremony of the national urban transport award called Wahana Tata Nugraha (WTN). The WTN prizes are awarded to selected cities that have fulfilled a set of criteria related to “traffic discipline” and public transport, which are established by the Ministry of Transportation.

22 cities and districts received this year’s highest awards, handed out directly by the President of the country, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, while the Transport Minister awarded 49 cities and districts with the second level prize. One of first prize winners is the City of Solo where the former Bogota’s mayor Mr. Enrique Penalosa will spend a day to work closely with the Mayor Joko Widodo to inspect the city next week on April 4. On the following day, Mr. Penalosa will also be the main speaker at a seminar there which around 250 officials from the City and surrounding districts are invited to.

The WTN awards were started in the ‘90s to encourage disciplined behavior of street users, enhance public service and encourage innovations in the development of urban transport in Indonesian cities. The WTN competition is managed by the Directorate for Urban Transport Development at the Ministry of Transportation (MoT), which is the executing agency for the GTZ Sustainable Urban Transport Improvement Project (SUTIP). It is planned that GTZ-SUTIP will assist the MoT to extend the WTN competition to include sustainable transport criteria.

 

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