Jakarta – Five out of ten of the world's worst cities for driving are in Indonesia, a survey of popular navigation app Waze revealed recently.

The Waze's Driver Satisfaction Index which analyzed the driving experience of millions of monthly active Waze users in 38 countries and 235 city was released last week.

The survey aimed to create a single numeric score on driver's satisfaction which involves six qualitative and quantitative attributes: traffic, safety, driver services, road quality, social economic factors and helpfulness of the navigation app.

Bogor in West Java was the second worst city for driving with a score of 2.15 on the Waze index – 10 being "satisfying" and 1 "miserable." The only city worse than Bogor was Cebu in the Philippines which topped the worst cities for driving list with a score of 1.15.

Denpasar in Bali, Bandung in West Java and Surabaya in East Java occupied fourth to sixth place in the survey, scoring 2.89, 3.00 and 3.14 respectively. Indonesia's capital Jakarta was ranked the ninth worst city for driving with 3.39 points.

The survey also showed Jakarta is still the most dense metro for driving with a 0.54 index point that means Jakarta drivers spend a lot of time trapped in traffic jams. Denpasar and Surabaya scored 0.90 and 0.94 respectively on the traffic density indicator.

Even so, Jakarta was classified as a safe city to drive with a safety rating of 9.78, higher than the 8.8 average.

The survey listed eight cities in France and two US metros in the top-ten best cities for driving. The French cities of Valence, Tours, Lemans, Saint-Etienne, Avignon, Reims, Nimes, Douai-Lens and Orleans dominated the top ten in the list, with Grensboro and Grand Rapids in the US taking out fourth and tenth place.

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