This is why in Indonesia to drive in the left lane

Why are we (Indonesia) driving in the left lane road? Before I answer, you should know that in the world there are two rules / standards in driving the left-driving countries and the right-driving countries.

Note, do not let wrong and forth!

Left-driving countries are countries whose citizens use the left lane roads to drive, so the position of the steering wheel / steering on the car was next to the easy kanan.Contoh is applicable in Indonesia. Other countries which adopt the same system is the UK, Japan, Australia, India, Singapore, Malaysia etc..

driving left-sign


Spoiler for the steering wheel on the right:


Instead, right-driving countries are countries whose citizens use the right lane roads to drive, so the position of the steering wheel / steering on the car was next to kiri.Contoh: USA, the majority of European countries (except UK), China, etc.

frame on the wheel:



right-driving sign

And it turns gan ... Indonesia is the world's minorities in the left lane road using alias left-driving country. From the available data, only 75 countries (including Indonesia) who hold left-driving, while embracing existing right-driving 165 countries. Here's a map of the distribution of left vs. right driving countries in the world today:

distribution maps:

Similarly, if viewed from the statistical population, then 34% of world population are from left-driving countries, while the remaining 66% comes from the right-driving countries.

Why left-driving Indonesia to countries? No clear history about it. However, TS trying to analyze it as follows:
There are two factors that likely influence on the driving style of Indonesia, namely:

The majority of cars on the market of Indonesia is made in Japan which is actually left-driving country ... European Car gan less behavior in Indonesia ..
The position of Indonesia "sandwiched" by the commonwealth countries (Commonwealth) as Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and Malaysia are clearly oriented in the UK who hold left-driving countries. This is an indirect effect on people's habits and trade policy of our country ...


On 7 September 2009, Samoa (189 000 inhabitants) became the first country in the world to change the rules of driving a right-left-driving. Samoa before embracing right-driving for a long time as a German colony at the beginning of the 20th century, although Samoa is managed by New Zealand after the First World War and gained its independence in 1962. Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi change the rules to make it easier to import cheap cars from Japan, Australia and New Zealand.

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