CFW Activities Since Last Week Have Been Monitored, Police Chief: Traffic Jam From Semanggi To Senayan

Central Jakarta Police Chief Kombes Komarudin/ Photo: Rizky Sulistio/ VOI

JAKARTA - Central Jakarta Metro Police Chief Kombes Komarudin said the impact of the Citayam Fashion Week (CFW) activity in Dukuh Atas, Tanah Abang, Central Jakarta caused long traffic jams to the Senayan area.

"Our observation is that the traffic jam is in Semanggi and even to Senayan," said Kombes Komarudin to VOI at the Central Jakarta Metro Police, Wednesday, July 27.

Komarudin also explained that his party had been monitoring CFW activities since last week. At that time, said Komarudin, congestion had already occurred.

"We have been monitoring since last Friday, until last Monday the activity was extraordinary," he said.

To anticipate severe congestion, his party is trying to overcome traffic flow so as not to stagnate by temporarily closing it. As a result, traffic flow returned to normal.

"So this is not a blockade, right. Only a temporary closure so that there will be no traffic jams due to fashion show activities," he said.

The placement of officers will continue to be carried out by the Jakarta Metro Police together with the Satpol PP, Transportation Sub-Department and the TNI.

Placement of joint officers to avoid congestion due to these activities.

"There are more and more people who come because they want to know about activities. As a result, it spills out onto the road so that the function of the road is disrupted," he said.

Previously, it was reported that dozens of joint personnel from the Central Jakarta Metro Police and the Tanah Abang Metro Police began guarding the zebra crossing in the Dukuh Atas area, Tanah Abang District, Central Jakarta on Tuesday, July 26, afternoon.

Tightening of the guard is done so that the participants of the fashion show do not use the zebra cross as a catwalk event. Police officers who were at the location restored the zebra cross function.

"Zebra crosses are provided for pedestrians crossing the road. Not for fashion shows," said a police officer through a loudspeaker at the location, Tuesday, July 26.

In addition to guarding, officers also placed a police car near the zebra crossing.

Cars equipped with loudspeakers continue to give appeals via voice messages so that visitors to the Dukuh Atas area do not use the sidewalk as a catwalk because it disrupts public order.