The Audience VOTED To Shake The Capacity, Sandiaga Uno: EO Don't Be Aji Mumpung!

The police disbanded the Berdendang Guiding music concert at Istora GBK Senayan on Saturday night 29 October 2022. (VOI/Rizky Sulistio)

JAKARTA - Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy Sandiaga Uno reminded event organizers (EO) to comply with the carrying capacity of a place for the number of people when organizing events.

The former Deputy Governor of DKI Jakarta also mentioned the overcapacity incident at Itaewon and the music festival Berdendang Bergoyang in Indonesia which also experienced excess capacity.

"At the same time there was an overcapacity incident at the Berdendang Bergoyang concert, the maximum capacity reached 10,000 spectators, but in the field there were more than 21,000 spectators," said Sandiaga, Tuesday, November 1.

He immediately assigned the Deputy for Tourism Products and Activities Organizers of the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy, Rizki Handayani, to evaluate and provide socialization to EO in order to comply with the planning capacity, early warning systems and the availability of evacuation routes.

As a result, the third day of the Trenching Music festival which was originally set to take place on Sunday, October 30, had to be stopped for security reasons.

Previously, the second day of concert had to be disbanded in the middle of the event because the number of spectators had exploded and exceeded capacity.

In particular, Sandiaga asked the EOs to follow the example of organizing the Bango hawker Festival (FJB) or the 2022 Synchronize Fest music concert which was considered to be going well even though it was attended by tens of thousands of people.

"We have to make sure the good system from the organizers and we have to benchmark the management crowd, such as the examples carried out by FJB and Synchronize 2022 which went well even though they were visited by tens of thousands of participants in their event," he said.

Sandiaga also reminded EO that there is an extraordinary desire from the public to participate in festivals or music activities that can invite crowds, especially since the COVID-19 pandemic has slowly started to slope.

Therefore, he appealed not to let this moment become an opportunity for promoters to sell tickets more than the available capacity.

"The satisfaction of visitors becomes a barometer. We must build the promoter and give it to Aji while, there are so many requests, people are stuck and kapok. This is a momentum revival that we must maintain," he said.