Malioboro Jogja Entered The Rest List This Weekend? Check Out The Rules For Restricting Visits To 2 Hours

YOGYAKARTA - The Yogyakarta City Government reminds tourists who want to travel in the Malioboro area to comply with the duration of their visit which will be limited to a maximum of two hours.

“The Sugeng Rawuh application will be implemented this week. From this application, it will be possible to limit the duration of visiting for tourists. Two hours maximum," said Yogyakarta Deputy Mayor Heroe Poerwadi, quoted by Antara, Friday, November 5.

Every tourist who will enter the Malioboro area is asked to fill in data by scanning the Sugeng Rawuh application.

Later, tourists will receive notification messages or warnings when visiting time is almost up.

“Your visiting time is almost up. Asked to immediately continue the journey," he said.

In addition to tourists, restrictions are also applied to tourism buses which are only given a maximum of three hours in a special parking lot (TKP).

“Every tourist bus is also asked to do screening at the Giwangan Terminal. If they pass, the bus will get a sticker and a parking access card," he said.

Since getting a sticker and parking access card, the duration of parking will be calculated. "We give the trip from Giwangan to the TKP in the Malioboro area for 30 minutes so that the bus can still access the parking lot for three hours. So, the total is about 3.5 hours,” he said.

In the last few days, Heroe said, there were several tourist buses that were refused entry to the TKP because the duration of the parking time had run out even though they had received a sticker that passed the health screening at the Giwangan Terminal.

“Usually this tourist bus goes around first to several tourist objects to access the crime scenes around Malioboro. Because it has been more than 3.5 hours, the bus can no longer enter the scene," he said.

According to Heroe, the various restrictions on tourists are intended to put the brakes on so that tourists do not feel as if they can travel freely.

“There are still restrictions being put in place in an effort to prevent the transmission of cases. We have a motto for tourism nowadays which is 'come healthy and go home healthy'. We want to protect the residents of Yogyakarta City and tourists who come," he said.

Heroe said that there had been an increase in tourist visits to the city of Yogyakarta in the last two weeks so that various efforts to limit and regulate the flow of tourists needed to be carried out so that COVID-19 cases could still be controlled, especially in some areas where there was an increase in cases.