Jakarta Increasingly Restless, Acting Governor Heru Asked To Implement ASN Rules By Public Transportation At Least Once A WEEK

Illustration of congestion in Jakarta. (Between)

JAKARTA - Jakarta is listed as the 29th most congested city in the world in 2022. This was revealed in the survey results of the Dutch GPS device company, TomTom Traffic Index.

Tomtom said Jakarta was getting jammed in the last 2022. The capital city is ranked 29th most congested cities in the world out of a total of 389 cities in 56 countries. A year earlier, Jakarta was still ranked 46th.

According to the Head of the Institute for Transportation Studies (Instran) Ki Darmaningtyas, there is one way that also needs to be applied to unravel traffic jams in Jakarta in addition to the construction of transportation infrastructure that is currently being built by DKI.

Darmaningtyas suggested that the DKI Provincial Government make regulations that require all state civil servants or ASNs to use public transportation when leaving and returning from work alternately every day.

Darmaningtyas gave an example, the DKI Provincial Government can require every employee to use public transportation at least once a week.

"Require all ASN in DKI Jakarta, both employees of the DKI Provincial Government and the central government and BUMD/BUMN employees to use public transportation in turn every day," Darmaningtyas said when contacted, Wednesday, February 22.

In order to make regulations more effective, the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government and the central government can also provide transportation allowances for ASN and BUMN/BUMD employees which are realized in the form of vouchers for public transportation rides.

"So, like it or not, they will take public transportation," he said.

In addition, Darmaningtyas said that the DKI Provincial Government also needs to continue optimizing road functions by controlling illegal parking to street vendors or residents' activities that often close road bodies.

"Also implement the provisions contained in Regional Regulation Number 5 of 2014 concerning Transportation which regulates the problem of using public transportation, garage control for private car transport owners, restrictions on motorized vehicles in certain areas and times, and so on," he explained.

A severe traffic jam occurred in this area of Jakarta. Polda Metro Jaya said the cause of the increased community activity after the government's lifting of the policy for the Implementation of Restrictions on Community Activities (PPKM).

"Yes, of course, community activities are getting higher, especially after the pandemic, this has been declared as an endemic, of course, community activities for productivity are very high," said Traffic Director of Polda Metro Jaya Kombes Latif Usman to reporters, Saturday, February 11.

"Yes, this is plus minus in terms of high community productivity, high activity, of course it will increase rather than the economy. But yes, the risk is that the volume of vehicles will increase on the road," he continued.

Based on data from the congestion index in Jakarta, community mobility did increase when the PPKM policy was officially revoked. The percentage reaches 48 percent.

"In the past, in 2019 the index was 53 percent. 2019 before COVID-19, after COVID-19 in 2020 it was at an index of 34 percent, starting to rise in 2022 at 48 percent," he said.