After Taking Street Vendors, The Peak Area Is Proposed To Install Security Fences To Road Widening

BOGOR - Head of the Regional Development Planning Agency, Research and Development (Bappedalitbang) of Bogor Regency, Ajat Rohmat Jatnika, revealed that his party had proposed the provision of a number of public facilities in the Puncak tourist area to the Ministry of PUPR.

A number of requirements for the arrangement of Puncak that have been proposed through Vice President Ma'ruf Amin such as a safety fence or guard rail, improving road quality in the form of widening and coating roads, pedestrians, parks, viewing platforms, and retaining walls.

Then, in terms of security and safety, the Bogor Regency Government proposes the installation of traffic signs, and public street lighting or PJU.

In addition, the Bogor Regency Government also needs the expansion of the Gunung Mas Rest Area, whose land belongs to PT Perkebunan Nusantara (PTPN) from the original 7 hectares, which was proposed to add 4 hectares.

"It also needs a joint post, the goal is to monitor the connection between traffic and disasters. Then later there will be a center of information center, and there will be a traffic control dashboard," said Ajat as quoted by ANTARA on Sunday, July 21.

The Bogor Regency Government is currently trying to organize the Puncak tourist area, starting with the transfer of street vendors to the Gunung Mas Rest Area on Monday (24/7/2024).

In controlling this merchant stall, the Bogor Regency Government razed 329 buildings along the Puncak Line, consisting of 185 buildings from Gantole to the Gunung Mas Rest Area, and 144 buildings from the Taman Safari Indonesia Intersection to the Gunung Mas Rest Area.

In addition, the Bogor Regency Government together with stakeholders placed 1,370 plants in the land of former street vendors (PKL), the Puncak tourist area.

The placement of the red shoots plant started from the starting point of the Atta'Awun Mosque, Cisarua, on Friday (19/7/2024).

"In order to be more protected, the land for the former demolition should not be refilled by traders or become a vehicle parking lot and according to yesterday's agreement," said Acting Regional Secretary (Sekda) of Bogor Regency Suryanto Putra.

According to him, in addition to preventing illegal parking and the return of street vendors, the placement of plants with metal pots is as a roadside safety that has not been fitted with a guardrail.

"It also helps the edges of the road that is steep, because the former building was then demolished into a ravine. Now this is to use it," he said.

Suryanto said that the placement of this plant was temporary while waiting for the Ministry of PUPR to intervene in the arrangement of the Puncak area.

Now, there are still 194 street vendors who will be moved to rest areas by controlling their stalls along the Puncak route.

Ajat ensures that the economy of street vendors or street vendors in tourist areas will be better after moving to the Gunung Mas Rest Area.

The construction of a rest area on an area of 7 hectares belonging to PT Perkebunan Nusantara has been carried out since 2020-2021.

The Gunung Mas Rest Area has a capacity of 516 kiosks consisting of 100 kiosks for wet traders such as vegetables and fruit, as well as 416 kiosks for dry traders such as souvenirs and snacks. Each kiosk has an area of 11 square meters, both wet and dry.