Jakarta is finally going to implement some new traffic enforcement technology (that has been used in other countries for decades), starting with a trial on one of the city’s main thoroughfares next month.
According to reports, the Jakarta Traffic Police and the Jakarta Transportation Agency are going to conduct a trial of a digital traffic ticketing system called Electronic Traffic Law Enforcement (E-TLE) in October at the latest. The system involves CCTV cameras being installed on the city’s main roads, which will be able to capture images of motorists committing violations.
“At the TMC (the Jakarta Police’s Traffic Management Center) there will be officers tasked with analyzing the images and determining if there is indeed a violation or not. If there is a violation, then the officer will determine what law the motorist broke,” Jakarta Traffic Police Director Yusuf told reporters yesterday, as quoted by Kompas.
If police decide there has been a violation, they will send a traffic ticket to the motorist’s address by mail. The motorist will then have one week to pay their fine via a partner bank and failure to do so would result in their vehicle registration being frozen, meaning the motorist couldn’t pay their annual vehicle tax until they paid their fine.
The Traffic Police and the Jakarta Transportation Agency say they will first conduct a trial of E-TLE on Jalan Sudirman to Jalan MH Thamrin. They have yet to determine where the cameras will be installed or how long the trial will go for.
Yusuf added that the CCTV cameras, which are being purchased from China, will have a detection range of 10 meters. The cameras will also be able to take clear images during the day and in the evening.
Starting next year, the Indonesian Traffic Police are going to gradually replace black license plates with white ones, which they said are easier to read by CCTV cameras in electronic law enforcement systems, indicating plans to implement E-TLE will throughout Indonesia in the coming years.
