Acting Governor Of DKI Heru Budi Asks Bodetabek Vehicles To Enter Jakarta To Take Emission Test

Acting Governor Of DKI Heru Budi Hartono/PHOTO: Diah Ayu-VOI

JAKARTA - Acting Governor of DKI Jakarta Heru Budi Hartono asked all vehicle owners in the buffer zone, namely Bogor, Depok, Tangerang, and Bekasi who are active in Jakarta to participate in emission tests.

This is in line with the intensification of motor vehicle emission tests and the application of fines by the DKI Provincial Government together with the police.

"Vehicles entering DKI from Botabek must indeed be tested for emissions from their location periodically," Heru said in a public discussion entitled Quick Response to Air Quality Handling in DKI Jakarta at the Shangri La Hotel, Central Jakarta, Monday, August 28.

Heru emphasized that nearly one million vehicles belonging to residents living in buffer areas enter Jakarta every day.

The head of the Presidential Secretariat also asked residents of buffer areas for emission tests. This is an effort to help control air pollution in the capital city, one of which is pollution from motorized vehicles.

"Botabek vehicles entering Jakarta are approximately 997 thousand per day. That is our concern. So, we must enforce emission tests for individual vehicle owners and ATPM traffic in Jakarta and they leave their respective workshops during routine tests, it must pass the emission test," said Heru.

On the other hand, the former Mayor of North Jakarta also invited the Bodetabek government to participate in planting trees and expanding green open spaces as a source of oxygen.

In Jakarta, Heru said that he regularly holds tree planting activities at least one day a week. Heru wants the same thing to be done by the regional buffer government.

"We have to plant trees and so on, we have to work together. If I grow trees almost every Sunday, I do that. I ask my colleagues from Bekasi, Bogor, Depok, (Tangerang), to be the same," said Heru.

In addition, Heru also suggested that the Bodetabek government imitate the steps taken by the DKI Provincial Government which began to gradually replace public transportation from the previous diesel fuel to electric power.

Heru gave an example, until the end of the year, the DKI Provincial Government will buy 100 electric Transjakarta buses. This operational replacement to electric buses, according to Heru, can help reduce exhaust emissions produced by motorized vehicles.

"The DKI Regional Government also needs to be supported in relation to the policy of electric vehicles, especially those on buses. Jabotabek colleagues, the DKI Regional Government cannot do this alone," said Heru.