Transjakarta Report Bawaslu If You Find Campaign Attributes Again

ILLUSTRATION OF DOC BETWEEN PHOTOS/Lifia Mawaddah Putri/YU

JAKARTA - President Director of PT Transport Jakarta Welfizon Yuza said that his party would report to the General Elections Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu) if they again found attributes or props for the 2024 election campaign on the bus or bus stop. This report was made so that Bawaslu could follow up on the handling of election violations by the 2024 election participants. This reflects the case of attaching legislative stickers to the seat of the Transjakarta fleet some time ago. “ Customers can also report to our officers if they see a campaign prop or prop, that's an effort we can do, ” Welfizon said in his statement, Tuesday, January 2. On the one hand, Welfzon emphasized that the DKI BUMD in the transportation sector stated that it is ready to guard its fleet from campaign props by making a written ban on the bus series and urging all passengers to comply with these rules. On this occasion, we appeal to TransJakarta service users, this is a public asset, so there should be no bending of campaign props. We invite all customers to take care of it together, "” explained Welfizon. Previously, there was a case of sticker sticking showing a legislative candidate in a Transjakarta seat. This was viral on social media. The sticker was immediately removed by another passenger. Unfortunately, Transjakarta did not know who put the sticker on, so there was no follow-up to the perpetrator. Head of the DKI Jakarta Transportation Agency, Syafrin Liputo, admitted that the DKI Provincial Government and PT Transjakarta had difficulty identifying the perpetrators of the campaign attributes due to the large number of passengers traveling. "Of course when it is pasted it will not be identified once massive people sit and the interval changes are very high, so it is difficult for us to identify even though there are cameras on the bus," explained Syafrin. "We urge the APK on public transportation not to install it, especially on buses, stick stickers. We hope it becomes a neutral area," he added. During the 2024 election campaign period, campaign props (APK) have started to spread everywhere. However, there are regulations that campaign props are prohibited from being installed on public transportation as yellow plate vehicles. In order not to violate the provisions, the installation of the APK has been regulated in Law Number 7 of 2017 concerning Elections and PKPU Number 15 of 2023 concerning Election Campaigns.

“ No, public facilities should not be used, for example, public transportation (city transportation) is not allowed, which yellow plates are not allowed. Transjakarta buses include yellow plates, right, that's not allowed, ” said Chairman of the Indonesian Bawaslu Rahmat Bagja on December 7, 2023.