On this occasion, I visited the museum Fatahillah or often called a museum batavia located on Fatahillah Street No.2 West Jakarta and not far from the old town station. Start with only RP3500,00 per person me and my friends went from shelter to shelter Transjakarta Blok M to Old Town. For me a visit to the museum Fatahillah is the third time after previously I just look around without taking a trail of documentation. Fatahillah museum building was formerly used as a town hall by the Netherlands East Indies until the date of March 30, 1974 this building was converted as a museum.
The origin of the Pedicab itself is from the discovery of a bicycle.According to the Columbia encyclopedia, the first bicycle was invented by the Frenchman, called velocipede at the beginning of the 18th century. Bicycles are two-wheeled transport that has adopted the handlebars on a bicycle pedal and steering systems.Initially the bike is not the same as we see, the bike in the 18th century are still made of wood and its shape was still stiff. In 1818, a German national, Baron Karls advanced the shape of velocipede. But at that time, the design and model of bike is similar to the carriage so that the people calling the bike as a "dandy horse".
Development of bicycle technology is advancing after a blacksmith from Scotland once again refine its shape and the bike is about providing a machine. Not like a car engine but more like driving a car that is made like a crank. Completion of the bike from year to year continue to exist and many luminaries from around the world that developed it. Significant technological advances occurred during bicycle steelmaking technologies and discoveries found perforated rubber as a raw material of a bicycle tire.
The origin of the Pedicab itself is from the discovery of a bicycle.According to the Columbia encyclopedia, the first bicycle was invented by the Frenchman, called velocipede at the beginning of the 18th century. Bicycles are two-wheeled transport that has adopted the handlebars on a bicycle pedal and steering systems.Initially the bike is not the same as we see, the bike in the 18th century are still made of wood and its shape was still stiff. In 1818, a German national, Baron Karls advanced the shape of velocipede. But at that time, the design and model of bike is similar to the carriage so that the people calling the bike as a "dandy horse".
Development of bicycle technology is advancing after a blacksmith from Scotland once again refine its shape and the bike is about providing a machine. Not like a car engine but more like driving a car that is made like a crank. Completion of the bike from year to year continue to exist and many luminaries from around the world that developed it. Significant technological advances occurred during bicycle steelmaking technologies and discoveries found perforated rubber as a raw material of a bicycle tire.
Pedicab is a modified form of the patented bicycle, wheeled pedicabs can be two, three, or more. The purpose of creation itself is the pedicab as a means of transportation that can transport goods or people, then it is not equated with a bicycle. The first type of pedicab appeared in the world is the pedicab jinrikisha originating from Japan. Jinrikisha originally only used by the nobility as a model of two-wheeled pedicab jinrikisha only and is pulled by a puller. Japanese aristocrats loved this transportation model andeventually became a common means of transportation there. But over time pedicab Jinrikisha prohibited by the Japanese government and was soon replaced with a new transportation concept that is more sophisticated and have higher time efficiency.
In the opinion of the guard of the museum, pedicab in Indonesia was originally discovered in the city of Surabaya in the 1940s and began to spread all over Indonesia. "In addition to the cheap price pedicabs can also transport a number of things quite a lot and moves at low speed, so you can relax while enjoying the atmosphere of the city", he said. From the 1940s until the 1980s pedicabs can still survive in some big cities in Indonesia. Many people admire and even love the pedicab as a means of mass transportation in this period. Generally, the older segments of society who choose the means of transport which is more relaxed and secure. The use of any means of transportation more convenient when pedicabs passengers and the driver knew each other, this could increase socialization among individuals and make the journey becomes more exciting. If the drivers are friendly and careful in running pedicab, they would have many customers.
Pedicab that I found at the museum fatahillah is a kind of pedal’s pedicab and not motorized, pedicab drivers are behind the passenger and looking over the passenger seat. This pedicab can load 3 to 4 people including the driver. Pedicab is a regular means of transportation which have advantages and disadvantages. The advantages of pedicab transportation that is environmentally friendly and poses no noise like a bicycle. Unlike motor vehicles that emit carbon monoxide emissions that negatively impact the surrounding environment, pedicabs do not have enough exhaust gas, just from the driver's sweat. Although more environmentally friendly pedicab also has a weakness that is, the less visibility for the driver can freely endanger passengers if the driver is a bit off guard. Pedicabs also have less safety indicators such as lack of turn signal like a motorcycle or car. But this can be overcome by an ingenious mind driver, such as the driver waved his hand to the right or to the left before cornering. Also pedicab can cause congestion because the average speed is 10-15 km/hour and it is considered very slow compared to motorized means of transportation that can travel a distance of tens or even hundreds of miles every hour.
Along with the times and technology, everyone especially the people who live in big cities like Jakarta, demanding a very high efficiency transportation. This factor is the main factor that makes the pedicab disappeared in big cities. Prices of motor vehicles, especially two-wheelers are increasingly affordable to more people settled on a motor vehicle that can travel a longer distance with a shorter time. The pedicab drivers are turning to the profession to be a motorcycle or public transportation driver who later turned into a mass transportation vehicle engine. Even the pedicab drivers who are still loyal to modify a motor pedicab. Pedicab next to the motor is connected to the motorcycle so that the driver is no longer pedaling pedicab as usual. Motor pedicabs are found mostly in areas such as Medan and Padang Sumatra. Today was not found again pedicab in cities such as Jakarta, but we can still find it in the city of Yogyakarta and Solo. In both cities the volume of the traditional pedicab on the streets is still quite a lot. Pedicabs are generally attracted the attention of foreign tourists who want to enjoy city views while relaxing.
According to the pedicabs fare now become relatively expensive because its main function is no longer a means of mass transport and tend to be used for the benefit of tourism for the tourists who travel to the area. People prefer to use a motor vehicle that cost less. There is another manifestation apparently pedicab modernization in Indonesia, Yogyakarta recent government plans to implement the metered fare for passengers. Made to resemble a taxi and ignore the humanitarian factors for the driver. Argo mounted works based on wheel rotation, the rotation rate of each wheel is RP 1.00. When viewed this metered tariff is more profitable for the pedicab’s passengers society. However this is soon to get a protest from the pedicab driver. Naturally, in my opinion because these policies ignore the humanitarian aspects of the driver. Expenses are transported rickshaw neglected that which is used only in the determination of tariffs is the distance alone. Pedicab driver just an ordinary person who can not be equated with a car engine or motor and eventually metered tariff policy on the pedicab was still considered controversial to date.
Ups and downs of the authors in making this article are the authors attempt to go to the museum Fatahillah which is quite far from their homes so I can take a day and spends a considerable cost, although by using Transjakarta calculated from students' school pocket money. Arriving at the museum Fatahillah, the writer was glad to see the museum collection items that are already old. The author with friends took documentations in the form of photographs for the third historical task. Great hope of the authors for the community and the government to pay more attention to state museums in Jakarta. Especially the awareness of the community itself is still very poor because the author found a lot of garbage carelessly discarded in the museum building and the drawings on the walls surrounding the museum.
Along with the times and technology, everyone especially the people who live in big cities like Jakarta, demanding a very high efficiency transportation. This factor is the main factor that makes the pedicab disappeared in big cities. Prices of motor vehicles, especially two-wheelers are increasingly affordable to more people settled on a motor vehicle that can travel a longer distance with a shorter time. The pedicab drivers are turning to the profession to be a motorcycle or public transportation driver who later turned into a mass transportation vehicle engine. Even the pedicab drivers who are still loyal to modify a motor pedicab. Pedicab next to the motor is connected to the motorcycle so that the driver is no longer pedaling pedicab as usual. Motor pedicabs are found mostly in areas such as Medan and Padang Sumatra. Today was not found again pedicab in cities such as Jakarta, but we can still find it in the city of Yogyakarta and Solo. In both cities the volume of the traditional pedicab on the streets is still quite a lot. Pedicabs are generally attracted the attention of foreign tourists who want to enjoy city views while relaxing.
According to the pedicabs fare now become relatively expensive because its main function is no longer a means of mass transport and tend to be used for the benefit of tourism for the tourists who travel to the area. People prefer to use a motor vehicle that cost less. There is another manifestation apparently pedicab modernization in Indonesia, Yogyakarta recent government plans to implement the metered fare for passengers. Made to resemble a taxi and ignore the humanitarian factors for the driver. Argo mounted works based on wheel rotation, the rotation rate of each wheel is RP 1.00. When viewed this metered tariff is more profitable for the pedicab’s passengers society. However this is soon to get a protest from the pedicab driver. Naturally, in my opinion because these policies ignore the humanitarian aspects of the driver. Expenses are transported rickshaw neglected that which is used only in the determination of tariffs is the distance alone. Pedicab driver just an ordinary person who can not be equated with a car engine or motor and eventually metered tariff policy on the pedicab was still considered controversial to date.
Ups and downs of the authors in making this article are the authors attempt to go to the museum Fatahillah which is quite far from their homes so I can take a day and spends a considerable cost, although by using Transjakarta calculated from students' school pocket money. Arriving at the museum Fatahillah, the writer was glad to see the museum collection items that are already old. The author with friends took documentations in the form of photographs for the third historical task. Great hope of the authors for the community and the government to pay more attention to state museums in Jakarta. Especially the awareness of the community itself is still very poor because the author found a lot of garbage carelessly discarded in the museum building and the drawings on the walls surrounding the museum.
