The Complexity Of Regulating The Jabodetabek KRL Queue Density Every Monday Morning

Illustration (Angga Nugraha / VOI)

JAKARTA - The density of commuterline electric train (KRL) passengers every Monday morning, especially at Bogor Station, is again a concern. They are mostly workers who will go to Jakarta.

Every Monday, the queue to enter the station is snaking long because of the limitation on the capacity of KRL contents to only 35 percent during the transitional PSBB period. Meanwhile, all companies have resumed operations. Some companies have implemented the rules for the division of hours of work (shift) and some are still ignorant.

Bogor Mayor Bima Arya asked DKI Governor Anies Baswedan to evaluate the supervision of the division of company working hours in Jakarta to reduce this kind of passenger density.

Responding to this, the Head of the Jakarta Manpower and Transmigration and Energy Agency Andri Yansyah admitted that he could not guarantee that all companies would obey the rules for dividing work hours.

"Indeed, basically on average, if there is a problem with restrictions, God willing, companies have limited them. Only a few companies (which do not apply a 50 percent division of work hours)," said Andri when contacted, Monday, July 6.

Even so, Andri emphasized that his staff had supervised the companies in DKI and took action, starting from warning to temporary closure.

Unfortunately, the ranks of the DKI Disnakertransgi assigned to oversee the company are only 35 teams. Each team contains 5 people and oversees 3 companies. In fact, the total number of companies in Jakarta is 78,430.

"We are still consistent in this regard because we are only assigned to monitor workplaces. If the workers' capacity is found out, it is not 50 percent, from there I will definitely take action, I will close it," said Andri.

"When talking about crowds at stations, there must indeed be a comprehensive study regarding what (the work system) is like for the workers," he added.

Yesterday, Bogor Mayor Bima Arya reviewed the situation at Bogor Station. There, prospective passengers began queuing from 05.30 WIB until the station parking lot.

It is recorded that up to 10.00 WIB the number of passengers on KRL Bodetabek reached 166,044 people. That number is an increase of seven percent when compared with the data on June 29.

The increase in the number of passengers was due to the increasing number of businesses or offices returning to operations. So, the employees of these companies return to work and use KRL as their transportation.

However, the number of companies that returned to operations was not accompanied by compliance with regulations or the division of working hours in some companies in the capital. That way it has an impact on the accumulation of passengers at the same time.

In his Instagram account, Bima said that Bogor residents had to queue for 1.5-2 hours to get into train cars. The factors that cause congestion are the limited capacity of the carriages, the lack of compliance with the working hour system, and the bus assistance that Anies has prepared is not sufficient to accommodate passengers.

"The buses that we have prepared have been maximized and indeed cannot be a permanent solution. This is because the number of passengers has approached the normal number because many sectors have been opened in the capital, but the carriage capacity is still limited to 35 percent. The working hour distribution system is not working," said Bima.

Therefore, Bima asked the DKI Provincial Government and the Ministry of Transportation to evaluate the division of labor system and its implementation. "Ideally, work time is more distant and it will certainly run in offices," he concluded.