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On the first day of Operation Zebra, police officers in Greater Jakarta ticketed 790 motorcyclists for driving against traffic and 411 public transportation vehicles like angkot (public minivans) and Kopaja buses for stopping arbitrarily to pick up or drop off passengers.

'€œWe had no set quota for today. The number of motorists we ticketed depended on how many people actually violated traffic regulations,'€ Jakarta Police traffic law enforcement head Adj. Sr. Comr. Hindarsono told The Jakarta Post.

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Separately, Jakarta Police chief Insp. Gen. Unggung Cahyono said that traffic officers would not be accepting bribes.

The fines themselves are quite adequate for supplementing police officers income, so no additional bribes are necessary.

Fred Frogley

I hope people will still abide by traffic laws even if the police aren'€™t conducting special operations.

Reny Ayu

Motorists obey the rules for a few days after operations like this, but they'€™ll soon be back to their bad old ways.

Risky

At last and thank you to the police and the city administration.  

The brain-dead motorcyclists driving up roads the wrong way should have their bikes impounded or destroyed.  

And angkot drivers are just about the most moronic and dangerous four-wheel drivers in Jakarta '€” and that is a big claim.

Denni P

Impounding offending vehicles is the best deterrent, especially since the offender will have to engage with bureaucracy to get their vehicle released.

I guess that could take months.

Chris Jeffries