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Rampant violations despite e-ticketing as motorcyclists get notification days later
A e-ticketing system is having a limited impact on roads of Jakarta, with hundreds of traffic offenses logged in the first days after police set up clever cameras to catch motorcyclists violating the rules.
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A police officer monitors traffic through a surveillance camera network at the Traffic Management Center control room at the Jakarta Police headquarters in July 2019. (JP/Dhoni Setiawan)
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ew technology aimed at curbing traffic offenses is having but a limited impact on roads of the capital. The Jakarta Police have revealed that motorcyclists still often violate traffic rules despite an electronic ticketing (e-ticketing) system in place since Feb. 1.
Traffic police law enforcement head Sr. Adj. Comr. Fahri Siregar said 502 traffic violations had been registered from Feb. 1 to Feb. 3. That number was divided into three types of wrongdoing: riding on busway lanes, disregarding traffic signs and not wearing helmets.
“Even though we implemented the e-ticketing system at the start of this month, there are motorcyclists who still violate traffic rules,” Fahri told The Jakarta Post at the Jakarta Police headquarters on Tuesday.
Fahri explained that those violations had been caught by 45 surveillance cameras installed on three major roads, namely Jl. MH Thamrin in Central Jakarta as well as Jl. Sudirman and Jl. Warung Buncit in South Jakarta.
Police have not issued any tickets for 341 violations that occurred from Feb. 1 until Feb. 2, as those two days were the trial period for the e-ticketing system for motorcycles.
However, as the trial period has ended, the police finally ticketed 161 motorcyclists for violating traffic rules on Feb. 3, with riding on busway lanes being the most frequent violation with 91 cases.
“Many of the motorcyclists were caught riding on the busway lane near the Duren Tiga Transjakarta bus stop with 53 violations. That alone accounted for almost half of the total cases of riding on busway lanes,” he said.
