38 Percent Of Buses On The Jagorawi Toll Road Violate The Rules, Some Use KIR And Fake KPS
The Directorate General of Land Transportation (Ditjen Hubdat) of the Ministry of Transportation conducted an inspection of 34 bus units at the rest area of KM 45 Jagorawi Toll Road, Bogor Regency, West Java during the Eid al-Adha 2025 holiday.
Director of Road Traffic of the Directorate General of Hubdat of the Ministry of Transportation, Rudi Irawan, said that the supervision and enforcement of people's transportation on the Jagorawi Toll Road is a form of his party's commitment to improving traffic safety and road transportation as well as reducing the risk of accidents on people's transportation or buses.
"The safety inspection or ramp check includes checking administrative documents such as supervision cards (KPS), documents passing vehicle tests (KIR/BLU-e), STNK and SIM," Rudi said in a statement quoted by ANTARA, Tuesday, June 10.
Other checks such as checking the condition of wipers, lights, tires, and the availability of light fire extinguishers (APAR) and glass solvers on the bus for emergency conditions.
For two days, June 7-8, the implementation of the safety inspection, said Rudi, the Directorate General of Hubdat had examined 34 vehicles consisting of 31 tourism buses, two inter-city buses in the province (AKDP), and one private bus.
Rudi said that from the implementation of the ramp check for two days, 13 vehicles or 38 percent committed violations.
The total number of vehicles inspected was 34 buses, which did not violate as many as 21 buses or around 62 percent, while 13 buses or 38 percent were violated. Of the 13 buses that were prosecuted there were 16 violations," said Rudi.
The violations committed by 13 buses were related to the completeness of safety requirements administrative documents such as vehicle test documents (KIR) and supervision card documents (KPS).
Rudi explained that violations were dominated by vehicles that were not equipped with KPS as many as seven violations or around 44 percent.
A number of violations committed include two buses having KIR but the validity period has run out, one bus does not have KIR, and two vehicles have fake KIR.
"Then three vehicles that have KPS have expired, seven vehicles do not have KPS, and one bus uses fake KPS," explained Rudi.
Rudi explained that from the results of the analysis of the transportation of people who were prosecuted for two days, it was recorded that four vehicles committed more than one violation.
"Of the 13 buses that were prosecuted, there were four buses with more than one type of violation and nine other buses committing one type of violation," explained Rudi.
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On the second day of the feasibility test activity, the Directorate General of Hubdat also removed the horn of the telolet on four buses that were checked for not complying with the rules. This step was taken because the installation of horns that were not in accordance with the rules could endanger safety and interfere with traffic.
The Directorate General of Hubdat also provided replacement buses for vehicles that were declared not roadworthy during the feasibility test process.
"Bus pengganti dapat digunakan oleh penumpang secara gratis, sebagai upaya perlindungan agar penumpang bisa melanjutkan perjalanan dengan aman," kata Rudi.