Considered Disturbing The Beauty Of The City, Hundreds Of Political Party Flags In Central Jakarta Are Brought Under Control By Satpol PP

Satpol PP removed the political party flag at the Slipi Flyover/ Photo: IST

The Central Jakarta City Government (Pemkot Jakpus) has brought order to hundreds of flags and banners of political parties (Parpol) installed in a number of areas in Central Jakarta.

One of the locations for controlling the attributes of the political party props was at the Ladokgi flyover and the Slipi area, Tanah Abang, Central Jakarta on Thursday, April 27. The existence of the political party flag is considered to have disturbed the beauty of the city.

Gelora Village Head Nurul Huda said the control was in accordance with Regional Regulations (Perda). The regional regulation contains public order.

"Cleaning the political party flag and the Eid al-Fitr greeting banner, are in accordance with Regional Regulation 8 of 2007," said Gelora Village Head, Nurul Huda at the location, Thursday, April 27.

Nurul said the political party flags and banners would be secured at the Gelora Village Office.

"Surely we will take these flags to the Gelora Village office," he said.

Meanwhile, Head of Civil Service Police Unit of Gelora Village, Maman S, said that his party was controlling the flags of political parties that had expired. This is done so that the Gelora Village area is orderly and clean of political party flags and banners.

"There are about 250 political party flags, tubers, and banners that we have cleaned from the flyover. In addition, there is also a JPO in the Gelora Village area," he said.