29 Jakarta as capital city of Indonesia makes the city becomes the central economic activity and central government activity. Therefore, many companies’ headquarters operates their businesses there, starting from small companies to large companies. Moreover, the central government activity also are carried out in Jakarta as president’s residence and government offices like Supreme Court and House of Representatives are located in Jakarta. All of these economic and government activities cause many people live and work there. More people means more housing needed in Jakarta, so do the infrastructure. However, Jakarta’s infrastructure development cannot follow its economic growth, thus congestion becomes the great problem nowadays in Jakarta. As the result, Jakarta government tries to solve the problem by creating MRT (Mass Rapid Transportation). Hence, how is the effect of MRT in Jakarta that people experience in solving congestion problem? JAKPAT conducted a survey concerning the probable effect of MRT in Jakarta. The survey was a replication of a survey done via this link. This survey is followed by 588 respondents knowing about MRT and living in Jakarta. Toward those 588 respondents we checked how many of them ever ridden an MRT ? Around 41% stated they ever ridden MRT. Then we checked via open text question and ask in which city they have ridden MRT. If we remove those answers that stated Indonesia, there are around 30%+ respondents that have the experience of riding MRT. Most respondents who have ever ridden MRT say that they rode it in Singapore, Jakarta, Hongkong, Malaysia and Japan. Over 95% Respondents Supports MRT project in Jakarta While respondents were asked about the necessity of MRT procurement in Jakarta: 50.29% of respondents think that it is necessary and 45.91% of them think that it is really necessary. More than 85% respondents are optimistic about MRT in solving congestion problem in Jakarta Q5 (single answer) : In your opinion, is MRT able to solve congestion problem in Jakarta? Total Gender Male Female Option 1 : strongly yes 151 76 75 25,68% 26,76% 24,67% Option 2 : yes 378 172 206 64,29% 60,56% 67,76% Option 3 : no 59 36 23 10,03% 12,68% 7,57% Total 588 284 304 100,00% 100,00% 100,00% Besides, congestion, another positive effect of MRT experienced by respondents is less transportation time consumption (61.56%). Moreover, fair respondents think that MRT procurement in Jakarta will finish in 5-7 years (57.87%), while others think it will finish in less than 5 years (23.95%) and more than 7 years (18.18%). Q8 (single answer) : After hearing that MRT route will be built in 2014, how much time it will take? Total Gender Male Female Option 1 : Less than 5 years 137 63 74 23,95% 23,16% 24,67% Option 2 : 5-7 years 331 165 166 57,87% 60,66% 55,33% Option 3 : more than 7 years 104 44 60 18,18% 16,18% 20,00% Total 572 272 300 100,00% 100,00% 100,00% Respondents also think that besides MRT there are some other alternatives that can solve congestion problem in Jakarta. Monorail becomes the highest answer (66.67%) and BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) is the other alternative (24.83%). # Option Total Answer Percentage 1 Monorail 392 66.67 % 2 BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) 146 24.83 % 3 Other option 50 8.5 % For more detail you can download XLS report at the button below. AKPAT report consists of 3 parts which are 1) Respondent Profile, 2) Crosstabulation for each question and 3) Raw Data. Respondent profile shows you demographic profiles ( gendr,age range, locationby province, and monthly spending). Cross tabulation enables you to define different demographic segment preference on each answer. Click the icon to download XLS report And also PDF Report here: The Effect of MRT Survey Report in Jakarta from Shabrina Rina If you’re interested to do survey on retail and consumer goods field toward our respondents, we have over 23,000 mobile respondents ranged from age 17-50 years old, smartphone active users, and located in all regions of Indonesia that has installed our app and readily answering your survey. Those 23,000 respondents has been verified, profiled, and continuously tracked to make sure you get the updated profiles of them. Our respondents has been profiled based on their demographic (age,gender,location, spending level, profession,religion), lifestyle habit (smoking/non, gamers/non, wearing glasses/non, frequent flyer/non, online shopper/non), and also brand consumption level ( brand A users, brand B users in FMCG, Retail, E-commerce,etc). If you want to do research toward our respondent, please signup here and directly create your survey there. Or directly contact our Bizdev – Chrisprastika at +62-878-3908-9833. To non-Indonesian client, we offer free translation from foreign languages includes English, Chinese,Hindi,etc.