Train accidents are pathetic

Daftar Hotel- THAT is the fact that we must accept when Bromo Orchid Agro Railway crashed into the back of the Sunset Railway Station which was stopped at Pemalang Saturday morning. More than 40 passengers were killed in these tragic accidents.

Hotel di Jakarta - We say pathetic because the collision occurred when the train Dusk actually trying to stop to give way to train Argo Bromo Orchid preceded them. Victims become so much because we are not prepared to handle accidents.

Until more than 12 hours after the accident happened is still a lot of passengers who can not yet removed from the carriage. Existing equipment at Station Pemalang very limited and medical personnel and hospitals were not sufficient to be able to handle an accident of such magnitude.

If we say that we are saggy in all fields, this is one cerminannya. Not to mention if we remember that the accident happened on Saturday was not only happening in Pemalang Station. There was another collision in place and also cause the victim, although not as much in Pemalang.

In the era that gave priority to the speed and accuracy, we are really not ready. We still rely on the railways traffic system manually. We still rely on human labor for the system should work fully for 24 hours.

In fact, the railway network there are at least 240 million users each year. To deliver the passenger an amount equal to the number of Indonesian population, it certainly is very dense traffic.

The question is, how much investment has been done to shore up the state of human movement as much as that? Technology like what we have to ensure the accuracy of the application running at the same time ensuring the system and the level of passenger safety?

Repeated rail accident happened and we immediately deployed a team of the National Committee for Transportation Accident investigation on the cause of the accident. But what then corrective measures are carried out in addition to punishing drivers and station staff who are considered negligent?

The government should dare to say that there is a system that should be corrected. If the train wreck that is always repeated, there must be a system that is no longer adequate to support the operation of train travel.

Railway system that we have mostly Dutch heritage. Railway network that we use is still a network that had been constructed by Daendels. If there is any increase in the time of this Republic, the numbers are very minimal.

Including also the turn signal system and rail line is still much to be done manually. We are very dependent on people for traffic that is so dense and generally occurs when people are soundly to sleep.

The accident happened at Pemalang can not just respond by looking at the crash site and punish the little people below. We must take more than that, including evaluating the managerial skills of officials in charge of transportation and railways.

We must dare to do that because it is a freight train folk. So many people who use this transportation. Because the number of people using the train, until should handle with care because the slightest mistake and handle the massive fatal consequences.

More than 40 people who died in an accident is really a tremendous disaster. In developed countries, only one passenger was killed in a train accident, officials have resigned immediately.

Good management of the train is not something that is difficult to study. We can learn from many countries how to manage the rail system that can be relied upon. All it takes to live the will and political will that the railway is a vital means of transportation.

If China in a short time not only can organize perkeretaapiannya system well, and even then develop advanced railway technology, we can not cook. The President has always said, if other nations can, we should be. Prove words, do not just simply stop as a mere political slogan.