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Jakarta's surveillance system in spotlight after May 22 riots
The Indonesian Ombudsman has criticized the lack of system integration with police operations for security and rescue efficiency.
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CCTV footage appears to show a white car stopping briefly, followed by a puff of white smoke and a firecracker explosion at Gelora Bung Karno (GBK) sports complex in Central Jakarta, near the venue of the presidential debate on Feb. 17. (Via tribunnews.com/Ist)
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any have praised Jakarta’s surveillance system of more than 7,600 CCTV units, which captured the distribution of money from an ambulance during the May 21-22 riots following the announcement of President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s reelection. However, the Indonesian Ombudsman has criticized the lack of system integration with police operations for security and rescue efficiency.
During its impromptu visit to the Jakarta Police’s regional traffic management center on Saturday, Indonesian Ombudsman commissioner Adrianus Meliala urged the police and Jakarta administration to create an automated integrated surveillance system to improve security and rescue efficiency.
Adrianus made the recommendation after witnessing that the police and the administration had been sharing CCTV footage in “informal” ways, as officers were required to obtain permission from the city to transmit the city-owned CCTVs to their security control room.
He also referred to a statement given by Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan recently that concerned the CCTVs after deadly riots the capital last month.
Anies gave police permission on June 3 to check city-owned CCTVs for their investigation into the riots.
“Please, [the police] can [check the CCTV videos],” said Anies at the time. The city’s cameras happened to have recorded some incidents during the riots, namely when people in an ambulance marked with the Gerindra Party logo allegedly distributed money and transported rioters in Gondangdia, Central Jakarta.
