Using How To Approach Residents To Prevent Brawls In Jakarta, Pramono: It Was Intentionally Unexposed

Illustration. The atmosphere of the brawl that occurred in Manggarai, Tebet, South Jakarta, Thursday, August 14, 2025. (ANTARA-Personal Documentation)

JAKARTA - DKI Jakarta Governor Pramono Anung revealed that his staff is currently making efforts to prevent brawls in Jakarta with an approach to meet directly with the groups of residents involved.

"For matters related to brawls, as we do in various places, now the approach is more of a human approach," said Pramono at DKI Jakarta City Hall, Friday, November 21.

Pramono claims that the approach taken by the DKI Provincial Government is more effective in reducing the number of brawls in the capital city. Then, residents involved in a brawl that was approached by the DKI Provincial Government also did not want to be disclosed to the public.

"So, if you look at it, the brawl has actually decreased significantly because we did approach these groups without having to be exposed, because they did ask for it," said Pramono.

In that approach, the DKI Provincial Government tries to find out the cause of residents, the majority of whom are young people, often do brawls. Then, the government will also look for solutions to prevent brawls based on the mapping.

"Including then channeling the energy to work. So why did we open job fair in several places and on average we also provide opportunities for this group to be able to work in Jakarta," he said.

In this regard, Pramono declared the establishment of the Jakarta Guard Task Force, a cross-element team involving the ranks of the DKI Provincial Government, field officers, and elements of the DKI Jakarta Forkopimda, including the TNI, Polri, DKI High Prosecutor's Office, and DKI Jakarta BIN.

The formation of the task force was carried out amid increasing urban security issues, ranging from brawls to potential radicalism. The Jakarta Guard Task Force, according to Pramono, will be tasked based on coordination and field monitoring.

This team will pay attention to the issue of vulnerability that has the potential to trigger disturbances in order. In addition, the Jakarta Guard Task Force will also be tasked with handling repeated disaster mitigations such as floods, fires, and extreme weather.

"This task force will work by prioritizing measurable information, coordination, and concrete actions. The task force needs to pay attention to various vulnerabilities, such as brawls, criminalities, social conflicts, disinformation, potential radicalism, to disaster threats such as floods, fires, and extreme weather," he concluded.