During The Christmas And New Year's Holidays, The DIY Regional Police Apply Odd-Even On The Tourist Route

Tugu Yogyakarta which became the icon of the city of Yogyakarta. (ANTARA/Eka Arifa Rusqiyati/am)

YOGYAKARTA - The Yogyakarta Special Region Police will implement odd-even traffic regulations along the route to tourist attractions in this area during the 2021 Christmas and 2022 New Year holidays.

"According to the leadership's instructions, we will apply the odd-even pattern to locations or routes to tourist attractions," said the Director of Lantas of the DIY Police at Kombes Iwan Saktiadi at the DIY Regional Police Headquarters, Thursday, December 23.

According to Iwan, the odd-even implementation is intended to control the number of visitors so that they can anticipate crowds in tourist areas.

"Even though tourist attractions are open, they still have to implement health protocols, including the number of visitors that can be controlled. With this odd-even control, we hope that community mobility will be somewhat reduced," he said.

According to him, the odd-even pattern will be applied to private vehicles.

"For public or tourism vehicles, we are free from the odd-even potential," he said.

The DIY Regional Police will announce the implementation of odd and even numbers according to a predetermined date.

"As an example, I take one tourist attraction, maybe Parangtritis access to Parangtritis will be implemented, we will announce it to the public that after the date. For example, the 25th means odd, only odd vehicles are allowed to enter the tourist area," he said. The inspection of vehicles entering the odd-even area, he said, would be carried out by officers from the National Police, TNI, and other joint teams at existing posts.

In addition to implementing odd-even, according to him, police officers on duty in tourist destination areas make it possible to control potential crowds.

"When the tourist attraction is deemed full according to the instructions conveyed in the mandate of the apple, the police will take discretionary steps. This means that if it exceeds the maximum capacity specified without compromising respect, we will carry out control activities so that there are no crowds of people." , said Ivan. This was reported by Antara.