Jakarta, April 26, 2025- To strengthen the movement towards clean and sustainable transportation in the Southeast Asia region, the Jakarta Transportation Discussion Forum (FDTJ), in collaboration with ITDP Indonesia, successfully organized the Jakarta Urban Mobility Festival (JUMF) 2025. One of the important activities in this series of events is the Community Panel Discussion with the theme “Introduction of CMCSEA and SEAMA.”
This activity presented various speakers from communities and organizations that have been actively voicing the importance of active mobility, public transportation, and environmentally friendly urban spaces. Some of the speakers included Enter Nusantara, FDTJ, Bicara Udara, Pedestrian Coalition, and Abby Marcel, a digital influencer who is known for actively producing content about sustainable lifestyles.
This discussion was initiated by Mobility Collective Southeast Asia (CMCSEA), which is part of the global Clean Mobility Collective (CMC) movement that brings together communities, organizations, and institutions from around the world. In Southeast Asia, CMCSEA focuses more on advocating low-emission transportation and urban development that is inclusive, safe, and adaptive to climate change.
This discussion has three main objectives. First, to inform the public about the ecosystem of active and sustainable mobility, including its impact on the environment, sustainable urban planning, and gender equality. Second, to introduce CMCSEA as a collaborative platform that connects various organizations in Southeast Asia in their efforts to control emissions in cities. Third, inviting participants to participate in SEAMA as a means to raise public awareness and create change through creative content.
Through this discussion session, the speakers shared their experiences in driving change in their respective communities. Including how to face challenges in producing educational content, responses from the community, and strategies for building inspiring narratives. All have their own ties and problems and each organization tries to answer these problems through their own perspectives.
Primadita Rahma from Bicara Udara, said that talking about clean air, we cannot separate it from the public transportation system. In big cities like Jakarta and Bandung, one of the main sources of air pollution is the emission of private motor vehicles, both cars and motorcycles.
“Reliable, integrated, and environmentally friendly public transportation is not only a mobility solution, but also a direct intervention in the quality of the air we breathe every day. That is why we at Bicara Udara continue to encourage a shift from the use of private vehicles to public transportation modes and active mobility,” Rahma said in Jakarta, Sunday 26/04/2025).
Reka Mahawarti from Enter Nusantara explained that public transportation is not just about mobility but about sustainability. In the midst of a climate crisis that is increasingly real and felt by all humanity, worsening pollution and rising greenhouse gas emissions, public transportation is one of the biggest contributors to emissions, especially in cities such as Jakarta and Bandung. That’s why Enter Nusantara sees public transportation as one of the key ways to tackle the climate crisis. When more people switch to low-emission modes of mass transportation, we reduce reliance on private fossil fuel vehicles, lower carbon emissions, and improve air quality.
We also, in 2024, took an active role in pushing for the revamping of the public transportation system in the city of Bandung, which at that time was still facing a lot of instability; the gap between the availability of transportation modes, service quality, and public trust was a major concern that was tried to be answered through advocacy work and grassroots campaigns.
As part of this effort, CMCSEA organized the Southeast Asia Mobility Awards (SEAMA), a visual storytelling competition that started in December 2024 and will run until May 2025. Through SEAMA, Southeast Asians are invited to share their experiences of using public transport, walking, or cycling a minimum of two kilometers. The aim is to illustrate the extent to which their cities support active mobility and low-emission lifestyles.
This event is not only an opportunity for organizations to exchange ideas with each other but also a momentum to strengthen solidarity between communities in pushing for more sustainable transportation policies and practices. With the spirit of collaboration, the future of clean and inclusive mobility in Indonesia is not just a dream but an aspiration that is being realized together.
