It Turns Out That This Is The Cause Of Jakarta's Implementation Of Worse: Revocation Of PPKM

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JAKARTA - A severe congestion occurred in this part of Jakarta. Polda Metro Jaya said that the cause of increasing community activity after the government's lifting of the Policy for the Implementation of Community Activity Restrictions (PPKM). "Yes, of course, community activities are getting higher, especially after the pandemic, this has been declared as endemic, of course people's activities for productivity are very high," said Traffic Director of Polda Metro Jaya Kombes Latif Usman to reporters, Saturday, February 11. "Yes, this is plus minus in the sense that people's productivity is high, high activity, of course it will improve rather than the economy. But yes, the risk is that the volume of vehicles will increase in the road," he continued. "Based on data on the congestion index in Jakarta, public mobility did occur to increase when the PPKM policy was officially revoked. The percentage reached 48 percent. "In the past, in 2019 the index was 53 percent. 2019 before COVID-19, after COVID-19, after COVID-19, the index figure in 2020 was 34 percent, it started to rise in 2022 at 48 percent," he said. With the increase in the number of congestion, Latif said. will work optimally to unravel it. On previous occasions, he had mentioned several things that had been done to reduce the congestion rate, such as the implementation of the odd-even scheme. "There are already gag rules, regulations and guarding there is a contraflow," said Latif.