The Indonesia Safety and Security Association (Kamselindo), a trucking and logistics business group, urged policymakers to revise the Traffic Law so that companies demanding truck overloading would also be subject to sanctions. “We will prioritize raising awareness and be very selective about law enforcement, only to very ,” said National Police Traffic Corps Sr. The Transportation Ministry and Traffic Police, also on Thursday, committed to enforcing the zero-ODOL policy in 2023 through “persuasive means”, such as training and public awareness campaigns, as opposed to “repressive” means that entailed punishment. Read also: Overloaded, oversized trucks banned from Jakarta-Bandung toll roads However, weak law enforcement means many overloaded trucks are still on the road. 22/2009 on traffic and road transportation, which stipulates that drivers of oversized and overloaded trucks may be sentenced to two months in prison and a fine of up to Rp 500,000.Īrticle 277 of the law also stipulates that truck manufacturers and assembly companies that create or modify trucks to alter the original specifications can be sentenced to one year in prison and fined up to Rp 24 million. “We want leniency in the ODOL policy,” he said, as reported by Tribunnews. On Tuesday, hundreds of truck drivers blockaded a section of the Purbaleunyi toll road in West Java to make their point.Īgus Ardianto, head of a truck drivers' group in West Java, said drivers were protesting the fact that existing regulations punished them and truck producers for overloading vehicles, even though the goods owners were often the ones demanding overloading. Over the past week, trucking companies and drivers have protested the zero-ODOL policy, arguing that the higher compliance costs would render their services uncompetitive. “We will continue talks next time, because the associations have conveyed many aspirations,” said Budi. The press conference was held shortly after the Transportation Ministry, the Traffic Police and the Public Works and Housing Ministry, the institution responsible for the repairs, met with truck driver associations to negotiate the policy. The Transportation Ministry announced the zero-ODOL policy in 2019 to end a practice that contributes to dozens of truck accidents each year and costs an estimated Rp 34 trillion (US$2.36 billion) in annual infrastructure repairs.
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