Want To Go To Malioboro? There Are Rules: Sugeng Rawuh Application And A Maximum Of 2 Hours

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JAKARTA - The Yogyakarta City Government will reactivate the recording and regulation of tourist visits to the Malioboro area starting this week. They will use the Sugeng Rawuh application.

"Starting this week, Sugeng Rawuh will be used. This is a standalone application that allows officers to regulate and limit the duration of visits to Malioboro," said Yogyakarta Deputy Mayor Heroe Poerwadi in Yogyakarta, Monday 1 November.

With this application, the duration of tourist visits in the Malioboro area will be limited to a maximum of two hours. And three hours to park tourist vehicles in a special parking area (TKP) that has been provided.

The use of this application is needed because until now Malioboro has not obtained a QR Code that is connected to the Cares for Protect application.

“The PeduliLindung application also cannot limit visits to a maximum of two hours while in Malioboro. That's why we use our own application," he said as quoted by Antara.

He also hopes that the use of the application can complement the "one gate system" policy for regulating the flow of tourism buses in the city of Yogyakarta which has been carried out since two weeks ago.

Every tourist bus, whether large, medium, or small, is required to enter Giwangan Terminal to conduct health screening for tourists by showing a vaccination certificate in the PeduliLindung application.

Buses that pass the screening will receive a sticker and a parking card at the designated crime scene. Buses without stickers and parking cards certainly cannot access tourist crime scenes in the city of Yogyakarta.

“There are people who circumvent the rules by dropping off tourists and then picking them up again. We need a solution to this problem," he said.

For the time being, Heroe said, he would intensify patrols from a joint team of Yogyakarta City Satpol PP, TNI, and police in locations that have the potential for crowds and crowds of tourists.

"We try not to have a crowd first. If there is such a wild group, it becomes a risk for Yogyakarta as an open tourist destination. We can definitely solve this problem,” he said.

One of the potential crowds that will become the focus of surveillance is in the Yogyakarta Kilometer Zero Point area, besides the barrier fence on the east side of the pedestrian has been opened.

"There is an agreement that at the location there will be a patrol team that routinely monitors and reminds tourists not to crowd," he said.

He hopes that efforts to realize healthy tourism to move the wheels of the economy will receive support from various parties, including tourists who come by ensuring that they have been vaccinated, are in good health, and comply with health protocols.