Is Traffic Jam in Jakarta Unsolvable?

Jakarta is not only the capital city of Indonesia, but also the center of entertainment and business in this country. Many people came in this city from every corner of the country and makes Jakarta one of the most crowded city in the world. With only 661,52 km2 of land, Jakarta has approximately 8.5 million population in it (not mentioning the illegals who doesn't get themselves registered). 

The overcrowding has brought problems like unemployments, illegal housings, and also the environment problems like annual flood and traffic jam. Traffic jam, has been a 'lifetime' problem of this city. Every day, more than two hundreds of new cars and more than a thousand new motorcycles licenses are approved. Imagine how many vehicles are there in the street of Jakarta every day.

The government has tried to solve this problem by providing the transport system, regulating the ownership of cars, and also limiting the vehicles in some main road which connects the important sector of the city. These solutions, didn't work out. Not only that the traffic jam has become worse every day, but also the expert even has predicted Jakarta will stuck in a stagnant traffic jam in 2015. By that time, the citizen of Jakarta will face the traffic jam from the moment they drive their car out of their house.

Why is this happening?

Public transport which was offered as an alternative solution wasn't enough in quality and quantity. Those who have personal cars would rather use their own, than having to put themselves in a unsafe overcrowded bus. Those who have motorcycles would rather use theirs because the cost is even lower than using the public buses. As the result, the additional public transport has become the additional traffic problems on the street. 

Limiting the amount of cars by three-in-one policy was only moving the jammed point from one place to another. Even it has brought new problem, the illegal-paid-passengers who was paid to meet the minimum amount of people in one car (which then lead to the raising of crime rates). 

There are lots of people who has started to raise their voice to the government to make a long term solution to finish this problem at once. Some said that adding a proper public transport would be a good solution to make people with car see buses as a transportation solution. But the other, went more extreme by suggesting the government to move the capital city to other place to reduce the overcrowding, which was the root of the problems in this city. This idea has been brought up many times before but there were never a serious action towards it.

So, when will the traffic problem in Jakarta be solved? Or is it true what people said, that traffic problem in Jakarta is unsolvable?