Policy for promoting cycling in Indonesia towards sustainable transport

The application of transportation systems in daily life is not just merely about connecting one place to another but also relates to many aspects; namely travel safety, geographical condition, financial resources, socio-economic factors and psychological factors. To manage all of those factors, a good framework of policy making is needed. This thesis examines what kind of framework is suitable to be applied in the decision making of the cycling policy in Indonesia. The cycling policy is chosen because cycling is an urban transportation model that brings many advantages namely the public health, the reduction of air pollution and also the reduction of traffic congestion. In Indonesia, cycling policy faces many obstacles especially in the provision of cycling paths which needs a large amount of financial resources. In the Netherlands as the reference country that applies a good cycling policy, the financing problem of cycling infrastructures provision is shared by neighboring cities and central government. In order to seek a good framework for cycling policy, including the financing problem, this thesis uses comparative method between cycling policy in the City of Groningen in the Netherlands as the reference policy and City of Yogyakarta in Indonesia as the destined case study in Indonesia. The approaches to propose a good policy framework for cycling is first examined in the literature that discuss about the ideal condition for cycling and secondly studies how those literatures are applied in the real world. From these approaches a policy framework is proposed in the form of recommendation for the local government in the City Yogyakarta in Indonesia.