Transjakarta Strategies to Avoid Sexual Harassment

Cases of sexual harassment in the mass transportation is particularly vulnerable given the circumstances that often force the passengers crowded on the inside. To avoid this, Transjakarta bus which is also a mode of mass transportation are now beginning to slowly apply the separation between passengers where men and women.

"We really are trying to get there, it's still trial. So not intensive. At that time allows, we point to the front passenger women and men back," said Head of the Public Service Board (BLU) Transjakarta, Muhammad Akbar, in Jakarta, Friday (12/02/2011).

Currently, the institute carried out tests of this separation from the queue at the stop line until the time will go into the bus. According to Akbar, this trial has been conducted since last week in Transjakarta bus corridors. This step was taken because of all the 2011 cases of harassment in Transjakarta increased by about 50 per cent, ie from four cases in 2010 to eight cases in 2011.

"This year is more than last year due to an increased number of corridors and automatic passenger numbers are also more and more this year," said Akbar.

Akbar said it is open to criticism and suggestions from the public related to this trial separation passengers. If you get a positive response from the user, then no doubt for the future will be applied to the 10 existing corridor.

Previously, the separation of the queue of passengers at the bus stop has been committed by officers, but it applies to parents, pregnant women, and mothers carrying small children. While the separation line for men and women at the bus stop, do not seem true at the bus stop, bus stop Transjakarta.

Based on the observation Kompas.com, officers on board the bus Transjakarta Corridor II (Harmoni-Pulogadung), Ade Kurnia, instruct the passengers do not push each other while trying to ride the bus.

Then, he started asking male passengers directly to the back of the bus, while the female passenger instantly took place on the front. Ade had even joked when he saw there was a father who went straight to the front of the bus and sat with his female passenger.

"Come on, had the feel of men directly behind, yes. The one in front of women. Come on, come on, be careful," he said while observing the situation on the bus.

After hearing these words, the father suddenly surprised to see around him there were only female passengers. He immediately stood up and immediately moved to the rear.

"Excuse me, I had no idea," he said as he invited the women to sit up.

While earlier in the Corridor III (Kalideres-Harmony), which had stopped at the stop Grogol II, the officers on board did not direct the segregation of passengers because of the condition of the bus when it is already too full. Even the officers did not want to raise too many passengers.