Jakarta Provincial Government Admits Compliance With Emission Tests Increases When Subjected To Tickets

Illustration. A number of vehicles queue for examination of waste gas emission tests at the DKI Jakarta DLH office, Tuesday, January 26, 2021. (ANTARA-Fakhri Hermansyah)

JAKARTA - Head of the Sub-group for Environmental Pollution Prevention of the DKI Jakarta Environmental Agency, Tiyana Brotoadi, admitted that the level of compliance with motorized vehicle users for emission tests increased quite when the emission test raid was accompanied by a ticket.

Meanwhile, when the raid was only given a warning and there were no fines for vehicles that did not pass the emission test, public compliance with emission tests was low.

In 2022 or at the beginning of the intensification of emission tests, the level of compliance of motorized vehicle users, both two-wheelers and four-wheelers is only 5.7 percent of the total 1,785 vehicles inspected.

"We can see how much compliance is. Like yesterday in 2022 there was no ticket, the level of community compliance on this road in the 5 city areas was only around 5.7 percent," Tiyana told reporters, Wednesday, December 4.

Then in 2023, the percentage of compliance with emission tests has increased dramatically. At that time, checking vehicles stopped on a number of roads accompanied by ticketing for those who did not pass the emission test.

"Yesterday in 2023 there was a ticket to be carried out, (the compliance with the emission test) rose to 21.47 percent," said Tiyana.

Then, the emission test ticket was stopped on the grounds that many people refused, and the socialization of emission tests in order to suppress air pollution was deemed not optimal.

"Yesterday in 2024 there was a significant increase, only 2-3 percent at that time," he said.

Meanwhile, the DKI Provincial Government had a discourse to use the emission test as a condition for the extension of the motor vehicle registration in Jakarta. This discourse has not been implemented and is still being studied.

"This is still in the process of being coordinated with the Cross SKPD. We are still continuing to be able to formulate technical policies related to the emission test plan to be part of the extension of the STNK tax," Sarjoko told reporters, Tuesday, December 3.

So far, the DKI Provincial Government has continued to hold discussion forums with the police and relevant stakeholders regarding the effectiveness of emission testing as a condition for the extension of the STNK.

The study in the discussion included identifying emission test weaknesses as a condition for extending the STNK to other opportunities to be united in further technical improvements. One of the concerns if this discourse is implemented is the potential to burden the community.

"This is of course related to consideration factors for the public, the community. Do not let this seem to burden the community with an increase in motor vehicle taxes," said Sarjoko.

Therefore, the DKI Provincial Government will continue to socialize the emission test policy to build public awareness. The goal is to suppress air pollution sourced from motor vehicle smoke.

"So this needs to be gradual on how we socialize. Even if we can implement this later, in quotes. Of course, it will take time for us to provide socialization to the community," he explained.