Stopping Trucks For Social Media Content Is Rising In Bogor, Mayor Bima Arya Hand In Hand With Police To Investigate

Bogor Mayor Bima Arya Sugiarto while inspecting the pedestrian Gang Pedati area Plaza Bogor a few weeks ago. (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - Bogor Mayor Bima Arya Sugiarto will soon coordinate with the police to uncover a network of teenagers who stop trucks on the road for social media content.

"Later I will coordinate with the police, friends in the sub-district, village heads, to reveal this network, what is the target for, right? We are concerned that if only for content that sacrifices lives, threatens safety, something is wrong here," said Bima in Bogor, Antara, Tuesday, January 17th.

Bima also said that he immediately learned about the phenomenon of stopping trucks just for the sake of content by teenagers which is now viral. Moreover, have fallen victim because of their recklessness.

According to Bima, coordination with the police and regional apparatus such as sub-district heads and village heads needs to be carried out to detect whether residents are indicated to have entered Facebook and other social media networks that are often used to invite content to stop the truck.

The Mayor of Bogor City is of the view that the incident was not too far from the incident in Bogor City last Thursday night which killed a teenager from Lebak Nangka Dekeng Village, Genteng Village, East Bogor District with the initials MSA (15).

Previously it was reported that the deceased was 20 years old with an unknown identity. However, the family said that their son who was killed by a truck was still 15 years old.

Then, following a similar incident in Bogor Regency. A teenager was killed by a truck after trying to stop it, which was speeding at Gunung Putri, Bogor Regency, which reportedly happened on Saturday. The Gunungputri village also called on content creators to stop this deadly content.

Previously, the Bogor City Police, West Java Regional Police determined the teenager who died as a result of stopping a truck for the sake of content on social media while crossing Sholeh Iskandar Street which went viral as a hit-and-run victim.

Bogor City Police Chief Kombes Pol Bismo Teguh Prakoso explained that the victim died as a result of the driver with the initial AR aged 38 intentionally not stopping his vehicle on Thursday, January 5 evening, so he has now been named a suspect.

Kombes Pol Bismo said that the driver and evidence in the form of a truck had been secured by the Law Enforcement Unit (Gakkum) of the Bogor City Police Traffic Unit.

According to the report from the Bogor City Traffic Police Traffic Unit, it was true that there were more than two people last Thursday around 21.15 WIB, on Sholeh Iskandar Street a truck was stopping for content.

Following up on efforts to prevent the incident from happening again, the Bogor City Traffic Police carried out socialization in Lebak Nangka Dekeng Village, not far from the victim's house.

Kasatlantas Polresta Bogor City Kompol Galih Apria when met at the outreach site said the activity was carried out with local community leaders by presenting mothers and children to convey education on the dangers of uncontrolled association outside the home such as Rojali activities (groups of unorganized pilgrims).

The Bogor City Police Traffic Unit, he said, will immediately coordinate with the Bogor City Education Office to West Java to take firm action against students who join groups of bad association that lead to crime in the form of suspension.

Rojali's activities have worried the community a lot because previously they often fought in sarongs which led to brawls. Not to mention, recently it has developed into life-threatening activities for actions for content interests.

Galih said that these teenagers had been detected networking on social media Facebook to hold action to create truck-stopping content.

They don't even belong to social media groups in one city.

"There are from Tangerang, Bogor Regency and its surroundings. On average they know them on Facebook," said Galih.