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View all search resultsAs Indonesia gradually moves on from the COVID-19 pandemic with the end of curbs earlier this year, Jakarta commuters are also getting reacquainted with the city’s notorious traffic congestion, with data showing that Jakarta’s traffic has largely returned to pre-pandemic levels.
As mobility returns to pre-pandemic levels in response to plummeting COVID-19 cases and easing restrictions, experts say that major efforts are needed to keep Jakarta's roads gridlock-free.
Indonesia’s capital city Jakarta has come out as the winner of the global 2021 Sustainable Transport Award (STA) for its ambitious integrated public transportation programs. Indonesia is the first-ever Southeast Asian country to have received the prestigious award.
The Jakarta Police have scaled up security patrols on the roads and in supermarkets to ensure that the public follow large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) that were imposed by the Jakarta administration on Friday to slow the spread of COVID-19.
On the first day of large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) in Jakarta on Friday, roads around the city have been almost empty. However, some road users still seemed unaware of the new regulation.
The Jakarta Police have imposed no traffic raids and less ticketing policy to check on vehicles documents as part of efforts to curtail the spread of the fatal-respiratory disease COVID-19 caused by the fast-spread novel coronavirus.
According to the 2019 Book of Traffic Portraits in Indonesia, 73.49 percent of a total of 196,457 traffic accidents identified in 2018 involved motorbikes — a far greater ratio than accidents involving other types of vehicles.
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