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Unemployed #7 - The Effort of Registering Vehicle Registration Number
It is not related with programming or software engineering topic. Yesterday I spent 4+ hours driving back and forth to my hometown to get my vehicle registration number since my ID still addressed at my hometown. I bought this used car early this year and need to transfer car ownership by changing all the administrative and new registration number.
I can do this by using we called “biro jasa” so I just need to sit tight and let them work, I’ll get the result later. But the downsides are:
costly, might 2x or 3x from original cost
I have no experience how to do administer this kind of activity in the future in case I need to do it by my self
Or other option I do this myself and will take less cost and experiencing it to gain knowledge how to administer vehicle tax and registration number. The downsides are:
High effort, driving back and forth to multiple cities
Longer time to complete, will took months
Then I decided to do it by myself. Took almost 6 months to finally got my new registered number but it was worth my effort.
I still wondering is it possible to make this process more efficient in this country? I understand that the vehicle needs to be physically there to manually checked by the verifier to prevent fraudulence. But all the paperwork was so long. It need at least your half a day to do the workflow like registration, verify the vehicle, paying taxes, and finally like need comeback 1 or 2 months to get the final result. Don’t forget to came early in the morning so you will get early queue.
If you don’t have any flexible working time, definitely needs a day off to do that or at least a half day off. Or like I said previously, “biro jasa” is there to help you but it will costly 2-3x. No problem if you have budget on that but most people don’t.
That’s it, have a great day!