Kali Duri Inspection Road Often "Eat Victims" Of Vehicles, Pramono Will Check Fields

Jakarta Governor Pramono Anung (Diah Ayu/VOI)

JAKARTA - DKI Jakarta Governor Pramono Anung admitted that he would directly review the condition of the Kali Duri Inspection Road or Jalan Air Baja in Pejagalan Village, Penjaringan, North Jakarta, next week.

This review was carried out following many residents' reports about uneven road conditions and often causing vehicles to fall.

The road surface in the area is known to have significant height differences between the left and right sides.

The latest case occurred on Wednesday, October 22 evening. A white car fell onto the lower side of the road.

The incident was recorded in a video uploaded to the @jakarta.terkini Instagram account and shows a number of local residents trying to help lift the car so that it can return to the surface of the road.

"On Monday (October 27) I went there because there was a slope and that has been the case since 2016," said Pramono when met at the Jakarta International Velodrome, Rawamangun, East Jakarta, Thursday, October 23.

Pramono admitted that he had ordered the DKI Jakarta Bina Marga Office to immediately follow up on the report. According to him, infrastructure problems like this should not be allowed to drag on because it has a direct impact on the safety of residents.

"I have asked the Bina Marga Office to see it immediately. I will go there on Monday because whatever, no matter how small, of course we have to handle it," he explained.

The condition of roads in the area is the rest of the construction project under the era of the Governor of DKI Jakarta, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama alias Ahok, which has not yet been completed. Development has only been realized on some roads, causing the road surface to become high next door.

The road, which stretches less than one kilometer with a width of about eight meters, is only concreted half. The concreted part of the road looks about 40 centimeters higher from the ground on the other side.

It was also seen that the concrete iron frame spread on the part of the road that had not been touched by the construction. This condition makes two-wheeled and four-wheeled vehicles often lose control while passing, especially at night when lighting is minimal.