More Crowds On Social Media About Sexual Harassment At TransJ, Deputy Governor Riza: If It's Crowded, There Is Potential

Illustration of the atmosphere inside TransJ (Photo by Heru Eko Saputro on Unsplash)

JAKARTA - The DKI Provincial Government will check the viral video about alleged cases of sexual harassment being repeated on TransJakarta buses. DKI Jakarta Governor Ahmad Riza Patria at the Jakarta City Hall, Wednesday, July 27.

Deputy Governor Riza promised that the TransJakarta manager would make better arrangements to prevent such incidents from happening again. public transportation and this time it is located on one of the TransJakarta buses. Perpetrators take advantage of the momentum of densely packed vehicles to carry out their actions.

The video uploaded to the Instagram account @lensa_berita_jakarta, as reported by Antara, shows the atmosphere inside a TransJakarta bus filled with passengers. The camera catches someone's finger playing between the legs of a passenger. By taking advantage of the density of people, the perpetrator used his hand to touch the thigh of another passenger nearby. "It is suspected that another act of harassment occurred on the TransJakarta Bus route 3F (Kalideres-GBK), Monday, July 25, 2022," wrote @lensa_berita_jakarta as the caption for the upload. said that the bus was full and the victim was standing near the bus door. "Then next to the victim was an elderly man. Maybe if the bus was crowded at first, I thought maybe the bus was braking and accidentally 'body contact'," the account wrote.

In the video, the suspect's hand seems to be trying to touch the victim's thigh from behind. However, he acted as if he accidentally touched the bus due to the shock on the bus and the crowded conditions of the passengers. The victim then got off at the Senayan Roundabout Stop and immediately reported the alleged sexual harassment experienced to the officers.

The perpetrator was also said to have been arrested but he still argued. Meanwhile, the abuse experienced is said to have traumatized the victim.

PT Transjakarta operates a pink bus that is specifically designed for female passengers. The pink bus, which has just started operating today, serves the Pasar Baru - Kalideres route (Corridor 3).

The Head of the Transjakarta Corporate Secretary Division said that it was not only female customers who could ride the Transjakarta pink bus. The driver and the officers assigned to this bus are also women.

"There will be bus service officers (PLB) who accompany, both the driver and the PLB on duty are all women," said Anang.

The pink bus will operate from 05.00-22.00 WIB with a regular fare of Rp. 3.500. Customers are required to tap in and tap out the electronic money card (KUE) at the gate stop.