JAKARTA - Jakarta Governor Pramono Anung believes that the presence of political party flags and banners that frequently fill public spaces often disturbs public comfort and obstructs road users.
Pramono highlighted the fact that party paraphernalia is still left up for days after political activities have concluded. This suggests a lack of responsibility on the part of political party organizers to clean up their paraphernalia.
Pramono made this comment at a Townhall Meeting gathering urban village heads (lurah), sub-district heads (camatan), and Forkopimcam (Campus Leadership Communication Forum) officials across Jakarta.
"Yesterday, there was a banner that read 'Working with the people,' but it never seems to work with the people. It hasn't been taken down on a pedestrian bridge for ages. It's been up for ages. I even called, 'Why haven't you taken it down? It's really annoying, I see it every day,'" Pramono said at Jakarta City Hall on Wednesday, December 3.
Despite his political party status, Pramono believes that abandoned political party banners on pedestrian bridges and flyovers detract from the city's aesthetics.
Disturbed, Pramono finally had to intervene directly to ask the Jakarta Public Order Agency (Satpol PP) why they hadn't taken them down immediately.
"Previously, if there was a party event, the flags would be up for a month, and no one would take them down. The flags were torn and ugly. I'm sorry, I'm a party member too, sir, but this is disturbing," Pramono said.
Therefore, Pramono ordered the Satpol PP to remove the party attributes within three days of the party event. He emphasized that this policy applies to all parties without exception.
"Yesterday, someone protested, and I said I have to be fair to everyone. Even though the person who called me was my friend, the general chairman (of a political party), I said I have to be fair to everyone," Pramono said.
Pramono asked the sub-district and village heads to continue strengthening coordination with the Babinsa (village supervisory officers), Bhabinkamtibmas (community police officers), and sub-district-level forums. He believes that collaborative work in the field is key to addressing the complexities of Jakarta's problems.
"So, in this way, you all will be coordinating with Babinsa (village supervisors), Bhabinkamtibmas (community police officers), the sub-district forum, and so on in the field. This must be done together. Because developing Jakarta, with its complex problems, cannot be done alone," he said.
Furthermore, Pramono emphasized that attention to detail, including the cleanliness and orderliness of public spaces, is the responsibility of all government officials in efforts to maintain the quality of urban planning.
"Working for Jakarta requires attention to the small details. In fact, I ask all officials to pay attention to the details of maintaining Jakarta's cleanliness; we will do that," Pramono concluded.
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