Jakarta motorists better start behaving. The Electronic Traffic Law Enforcement (ETLE) system is now in effect, meaning its digital eyes are everywhere watching your every move (at least on a few select roads, for now).
As reported by Kompas, the Jakarta Traffic Police are conducting a month-long trial of the program, starting today, that will run through the whole month of October. The trial is utilizing four traffic cameras installed on the stretch of Jalan Sudirman to Jalan M.H. Thamrin in Central Jakarta, that are capable of identifying traffic offenses including speeding, driving against the flow of traffic, using a phone while driving, and violating the odd-even traffic rule.
During the trial period, traffic offenders will not be fined as the traffic police say they’re more interested in seeing whether or not the cameras are able to clearly capture images of the offenders and their vehicles’ license plates.
Should the trial prove successful, the traffic police are going to officially enforce it soon after, starting on the two aforementioned roads before more cameras are installed throughout the city.
Once official, if the police decide there has been a violation, they will send a traffic ticket to the motorist’s address by mail and/or email. The motorist will then have one week to pay their fine via a partner. 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.
According to early reports, in the initial stages of ETLE, vehicles bearing license plates from outside Jakarta will not be fined under the system as they aren’t in the city’s database. However, it’s likely ETLE will be enforced in other major cities as well.
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