Observers Give Ideas On Minimarket Parking Fees In Jakarta Cut From Payments

The existence of illegal parking attendants in minimarket parking areas is often complained of by the public. Not a few minimarket managers have installed free parking notices, but there are still jukir who collect parking rates.

Responding to this, a city planning observer from Trisakti University, Nirwono Joga asked minimarket managers to take responsibility for ensuring that illegal jukir no longer collect parking fees from buyers.

One way, according to Nirwono, is by deducting parking fees from payments for goods purchased, if necessary there is a parking management fee.

"If indeed minimarket managers charge parking fees, they can cut when paying groceries to buyers, where the parking fees will be paid to officers. Also, ensuring that buyers are not charged parking fees by parking attendants outside and show proof of the cuts," Nirwono told reporters, Tuesday, May 7.

In addition, minimarket owners or managers need to work with local residents to help supervise so that there are no more illegal jukir.

"In fact, if necessary, cooperate with the regional government parking management agency to involve official parking officers in uniform and registered," said Nirwono.

Previously, the Head of the DKI Jakarta Transportation Agency, Syafrin Liputo, emphasized that the provisions for parking at minimarkets were free of charge.

"Regarding parking at minimarkets as our regulations, there is free parking there. So, the manager is not allowed to collect," Syafrin told reporters, Friday, May 3.

However, Syafrin admitted that these recalcitrant jukir people still took advantage of the opportunity to arrange parking and collect tariffs at minimarkets.

"It's as if it's the driver's obligation to pay. It shouldn't be, because that's a facility that must be prepared in the minimarket," said Syafrin.

Syafrin claimed that both the Transportation Agency and the Satpol PP continued to control illegal jukir in minimarkets. However, when they were not monitored, they often returned to the location to collect parking rates.

"So once an officer carried out surveillance, they stepped aside. But once the officer disappeared, they came back to make arrangements and some forced them to collect certain costs. This then became a problem," he explained.