It looks like the police are once again off the hook from social media’s scorn.
Last week, a video went viral showing passengers in a Transjakarta bus complaining that their driver was being unfairly ticketed by a police officer for crashing into a motorcycle while driving on the Busway lane.
But now, the driver, Jajang, has come out to clarify that he did not get a ticket and that there was no crash.
“I was said to have been ticketed, that’s not true. There was news that I crashed into a motorcycle, which is also not true. I was driving on the Busway lane. To my right was a motorcycle, so I swerved a little to the left. But behind me there was a motorcycle [that almost got hit]. And then I was stopped because the motorcyclist reported me, but it was resolved then and there and we were told by the officer to drive on,” Jajang clarified, as quoted by Warta Kota today.
The identity of the motorcyclist is still unknown, though there were reports that he was a policeman.
As for the policeman who allegedly ticketed Jajang, Brigadier M, the Jakarta Police had already apologized to the public in his behalf for aggressively shouting back at the Transjakarta passengers in the video.
