Jalan I Gusti Ngurah Rai Is Strictly Guarded By Officials In The Aftermath Of Brawl Between Districts

Head of Ops for East Jakarta Metro Police (Jaktim) AKBP Rachmat Eko Mulyadi/ Photo: Antara

East Jakarta Metro Police together with East Jakarta Satpol PP have tightened security on Jalan I Gusti Ngurah Rai to anticipate further brawls in the area.

"We will guard the area," said East Jakarta Metro Police (Jaktim) Head of Ops AKBP Rachmat Eko Mulyadi after attending the Brawl Handling Coordination Meeting at the East Jakarta Mayor's Office, Tuesday, November 19, 2024.

In this area (I Gusti Ngurah Rai) there are three Polsek involved because it is a border area between Duren Sawit, Pulogadung and Jatinegara.

According to him, his party together with the East Jakarta City Government (Pemkot) who are members of the East Jakarta City Leadership Communication Forum (Forkopimko) are looking for a solution to the settlement of the brawl case on Jalan I Gusti Ngurah Rai (Kebon Singkong).

"It's still not final, the activities are planned. Later there may be more technical meetings, more technical ones initiated by the Mayor of East Jakarta," said Eko.

East Jakarta Satpol PP Head Budhy Novian added that the technical meeting would involve a number of government institutions related to drugs such as BPOM, the City National Narcotics Agency (BNNK) in drug abuse cases.

Meanwhile, the Police and Satpol PP as well as the Population and Civil Registration Sub-dept. (Dukcapil) related to population..

This was done considering that the perpetrators of the brawl were allegedly using alcoholic beverages and drug abuse when carrying out their actions.

"To anticipate in the short term what is possible to carry out is the involvement of all potential communities and also government officials in sub-districts, sub-districts and Satpol PP

"This includes other regional work units (UKPD) to be able to take turns guarding the stationary at the location points that have now been mapped, such as Jalan I Gusti Ngurah Rai and Jalan Basuki Rahmat (Bassura)," said Budhy.

The number of Satpol PP personnel to be deployed is 70 people along with two other pillars, namely the Police and the TNI.

"We will picket together with three pillars from the police (polres-polsek) and the TNI (Kodim-Koramil)," said Budhy.

The coordination meeting was held following a brawl between residents of Kebon Singkong, Duren Sawit and residents of Cipinang Jagal, Pulogadung, on Monday night (18/11).

In fact, a similar action occurred on Sunday (10/11) which caused a teenager to die when he was hit by a train.