Illegal Parking In Grand Indonesia Will Be Ordered, Dishub Asks Residents Who Have Wide Land To Share Permits

Illustration of the situation of two-wheeled vehicle parking in traditional markets. (Between)

JAKARTA - The DKI Jakarta Provincial Government is still looking for solutions to find new parking locations to replace illegal parking in the Grand Indonesia area. Finally, the Central Jakarta Transportation Sub-dept. (Sudinhub) has conducted socialization to local residents. Head of the Central Jakarta Sub-dept., Wildan Anwar, said that his party had met residents who had a fairly large land area, about 1,000 meters. This land, according to Wildan, can be used for official parking locations in the Grand Indonesia area. "One of the RW administrators named Pak Itok has been invited to chat, there is an empty land managed by local residents. Technically, the operation of the land allows it to be a solution for the parking lot behind GI because it is quite large," Wildan said when contacted, Tuesday, December 13. However, Wildan asked the residents to first apply for permits to use their land as an official parking lot and impose tariffs in accordance with Governor Regulation Number 31 of 2017 concerning Parking Service Tariffs. "The person concerned has not yet made a legal entity. Yesterday, the Parking Management Unit (Dishub) counseling team had conveyed that Pak Itok's parking had to be licensed," said Wildan. After the permit is taken care of, the Central Jakarta Sub-dept. will help residents provide parking block facilities to ticket procurement. The parking manager must also sign a parking retribution payment agreement for the DKI Provincial Government. "When the business must have a permit, they provide official retribution shares for each income through a cooperation agreement," he said. Recently, it went viral on social media, which uploaded a video of illegal parking in the Grand Indonesia area. This illegal parking attendant sets a fee of IDR 10,000 per parking. The complaint regarding the existence of illegal parking in the Grand Indonesia area was also expressed by the Chairman of the Jakarta City Citizens Forum (Fakta) Azas Tigor Nainggolan. Tigor also has the experience of parking his motorbike at that location. "When I went home and took the motorbike, the illegal parking attendant (jukir) asked me for a parking fee of Rp. 10,000. When I tried to bid for Rp. 5,000, the wild jukir didn't want to and still asked me to pay for the motorbike parking for Rp. 10,000," said Tigor. Tigor assessed that in all illegal parking areas around Grand Indonesia there are a lot of parking points and thousands of motorcycles filled. He calculated roughly the income from this illegal parking business. According to him, the illegal parking can gain up to billions of rupiah in one year. "For example, there are around 5,000 motorbikes parked there every day, the income is Rp. 50 million a day, Rp. 1.5 billion a month and Rp. 18 billion a year," he said.