“Today we continued the cleanup under the Slipi Toll Road in Palmerah with a total of 500 joint personnel from the West Jakarta administration,” West Jakarta Mayor Uus Kuswanto told ANTARA on Sunday, August 31.
He said the personnel came from several regional working units, including the Sub-department of Parks and Urban Forests, Sub-department of Water Resources, Sub-department of Environment, as well as the Civil Service Police Unit (Satpol PP) and the 0503 West Jakarta Military District Command.
The cleanup included removing garbage and burnt debris from the protest, clearing tear gas residue, repainting defaced murals, spraying down damaged posts, and repairing curbs and gardens.
Kuswanto added that the effort focused on several points, particularly under the Slipi Toll Road, Jalan S. Parman, Jalan KS Tubun, Jalan Palmerah Utara, and surrounding areas.
“Our focus is to restore and secure public facilities,” he said.
Earlier, The Jakarta Environment Agency (DLH) deployed 1,150 sanitation personnel to restore and clean the capital following demonstrations that continued into early Saturday.
"We are working to ensure Jakarta recovers and returns to cleanliness after the protests," said DLH Jakarta Head Asep Kuswanto in Jakarta on Saturday, August 30.
He added that the cleaning operations were carried out on a large scale with adequate facilities, including 48 road sweepers, 60 garbage trucks, and 45 utility vehicles, enabling rapid recovery of the city.
As reported previously, a new wave of protests erupted on Friday, August 29, in multiple Indonesian cities after the death of 21-year-old Affan Kurniawan, an online motorcycle taxi driver, who was struck and killed by a police tactical vehicle during a demonstration near the Parliament Complex in Jakarta the previous day.
Friday’s demonstrations in Jakarta centered on the Parliament Complex in Central Jakarta and the Jakarta Metropolitan Police Headquarters in South Jakarta. The protests have grown increasingly chaotic, with large crowds gathering in several locations near the Parliamentary Complex, including Palmerah, Senayan, and Pejompongan.
The Protests also spread to Bandung, Surakarta, Yogyakarta, and Makassar. By nightfall, many protests escalated into violence. Rioters damaged public facilities, while in Makassar (South Sulawesi) and Mataram (West Nusa Tenggara), local parliament buildings were reportedly set on fire.
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