Mandatory Employees Cycling Every Friday, DKI Transportation Agency: If You Don't Have, Get A Public Vehicle

Illustration of residents cycling during CFD in Jakarta. (Antara)

JAKARTA - The DKI Jakarta Transportation Agency (Dishub) requires its employees to go on bicycles to go and go home every Friday. What if DKI Transportation Agency employees do not have bicycles?

Deputy Head of the DKI Jakarta Transportation Agency, Chaidir, said that his staff could use public transportation as their mobility.

"Those who don't have bicycles can take public transportation, they can take public transportation. We are also using public transportation and bicycles in the context of Transportation Day," Chaidir told reporters, Monday, August 29.

The obligation to use this emission-free vehicle has been implemented since last Friday. In its implementation, there will be supervision of DKI Transportation Agency employees and reports of their presence every time they come and go home from work.

"The first supervision every early Friday we check how many use bicycles in the morning and go home. The report every day is based on attendance and where the report comes from," explained Chaidir.

As is known, the Head of the DKI Jakarta Transportation Agency, Syafrin Liputo, issued Instruction Number e-3001 of 2022.

In this instruction, all employees of the DKI Jakarta Provincial Transportation Service, both state civil servants (ASN) and other individual service providers (PJLP) are required to use bicycles as the main mode or follow-up mode to the workplace every Friday.

In addition, Syafrin also asked his subordinates to show off their cycling to work every Friday to invite the public to participate in using bicycles in their activities.

"The use of bicycles is carried out every Friday and all employees of the DKI Jakarta Provincial Transportation Service are instructed to also upload cycling activities on their respective social media," said Syafrin.

Deputy Governor of DKI Jakarta Ahmad Riza Patria said this was an effort by the DKI Provincial Government to socialize the bicycle lanes that had been built so far.

"That's our effort to ensure that we can use the bicycle lane, that's our part of socializing the bicycle lane we made," Riza told reporters, Friday, August 26.