About White Number Plates, Police Will Priority For New Vehicles

Director of Traffic (Dirlantas) Polda Metro Jaya Kombes Pol Sambodo Purnomo Yogo (Photo via Antara)

JAKARTA - Polda Metro Jaya prioritizes making police numbers (nopol) with a white base and black writing for new vehicles to support the provision of camera-based electronic evidence of violations (electronic traffic law enforcement / ETLE).

"Even if there are, it will be prioritized for new vehicles and vehicles that have to change the motorized vehicle number (TNKB) for the 5th year of tax payments," said Director of Traffic (Dirlantas) Polda Metro Jaya, Kombes Pol Sambodo Purnomo Yogo in Jakarta, Thursday 2 June quoted from Antara.

However, Sambodo, currently does not want to go into details regarding the change in the white number plates for these motorized vehicles.

He said his party was still waiting for directions from the Korlantas Polri Headquarters regarding the change to the white number plates.

"Polda Metro Jaya has not issued a white plate. We are still waiting for the direction of Korlantas," said Sambodo.

Previously, the change in the color of the vehicle number plates was carried out to support the implementation of the effectiveness of camera-based electronic ticketing (ETLE).

The black base plate has the potential to be mistaken for the identification process or difficult to read by the ETLE camera that is monitoring the road.

The policy is contained in Indonesian Police Regulation (Perpol) Number 7 of 2021 concerning Registration and Identification of Motorized Vehicles, which replaces Perpol Number 5 of 2012 concerning Vehicle Registration and Identification of Motorized Vehicles.

In Article 45 paragraph (1) letter a it is explained that the TNKB will later be colored white with black writing for individual vehicles, legal entities, representatives of foreign countries, or international agencies.

Then, a yellow base plate written in black applies to public vehicles, a red base plate written in white for government agency vehicles, and a green base plate written in black for vehicles in free trade areas that receive import duty exemption facilities based on the provisions of laws and regulations.