5 Differences of Public Transportation in Indonesia and Malaysia that You Have to Know
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Our blog is created by a group of Indonesian and Malaysian students for the purpose of comparing our own countries in different characteristics. Keep in mind though, the comparison we made is just for fun and not to diss either country, okay? 😊
Our Indonesian members have been staying for two years in Malaysia and they noticed a lot of differences between the two countries, especially in public transportation. Most Indonesians who visit Malaysia for the first time may be surprised and feel wow'd because they will see that Malaysia has better public transportation than Indonesia. Without further ado, let's check out their differences!
1. Malaysia has no Taxi Bikes
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| GrabBike by GRAB via TECHINASIA |
- There is no public OJEK (Pronounce as oh-jék) you will find at the streets of Malaysia.
- UBER & GRAB don't provide taxi bike services in Malaysia (and there's also no GO-JEK here, so don't waste your time to look for motorbike taxis).
2. Three-wheeler transport is not as common in Malaysia
Trishaw in Penang by Shore Excursions Asia & Becak Motor in Medan by Tobasatu.com
- Three-wheeled vehicles like TRISHAW can be found only in specific cities of Malaysia, such as Penang's Georgetown and Malacca, while BECAK (Trishaw) is common in many cities of Indonesia.
- Trishaws in Malaysia use bicycles, but in Indonesia, they use both motorbikes (BECAK MOTOR) and bicycles (BECAK DAYUNG).
- In Malaysia, trishaws are mostly used as tourist attraction, yet in Indonesia they are used as normal transportation and sometimes to do shipment, but in a more traditional and manual way.
- There is no BAJAJ (Pronounce as ba-jai) or auto rickshaw in Malaysia.
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| Bajaj (Image by Sabung.hamster) |
3. More convenience of Malaysian four-wheeled cars
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- There are more choices in TAXI in Malaysia, which are budget, taxi 1 Malaysia, and executive; there are only regular and executive taxis in Indonesia.
- There's no transportation like ANGKOT (Angkutan Kota) in Malaysia (so no need to worry about getting stopped, honked, cut, glared at, and yelled at by someone when you are in the middle of driving or crossing the street like in Indonesia!).
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| Angkot (Image by Genta via Sonnylab) |
4. Malaysia has better bus services
Transjakarta bus (Image by Fakhrizal Fakhri) & RapidKL bus (Image by mailer_diablo)
- In Indonesia, many bus stops don't provide information about the bus route and often get vandalized unlike in Malaysia.
- You can get information about bus routes in Indonesia from newspaper, online news and blogs (exclude BRT TRANSJAKARTA), while there are official websites to get the bus routes in Malaysia.
- BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) is provided in some cities of Indonesia and is considered as the most sophisticated public transportation on the road, yet Malaysia has MYRAPID buses and only has BRT available in one area (SUNWAY LINE).
- RAPID KL buses and BRT SUNWAY LINE in Kuala Lumpur allow you to pay using smart card, but in Indonesia, you can only use that in BRT TRANSJAKARTA.
5. More choices for rail transport in Malaysia
- Malaysia has KERETA API TANAH MELAYU (KTM) KOMUTER, LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT (LRT), MASS RAPID TRANSIT (MRT) and MONORAIL for intra-city travel, yet Indonesia currently has just KERETA REL LISTRIK (KRL), a commuter, while MRT and LRT will be provided in the future (expected to finish in 2018).
- KRL in Indonesia doesn't has connecting gates or lines to the popular attractions in each station, so you have to go outside from the stations and walk there.
- There's no TV that will show you how long KRL will arrive at the station, so you have to listen the announcement from the loudspeaker (good luck with that!).
You can see now that Malaysia has well-developed public transportation compare to Indonesia. It provides you a lot of convenience in accessing information and places that you want to know and go. Our Indonesian members are even jealous that Malaysia has such sophisticated public transportation 😏.
Anyway, check out our blog every week for interesting information that you may not know about Indonesia and Malaysia.
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