ETLE Camera Traffic Enforcement

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Cameras capture roughly 10 million violations a month. Postage is the bottleneck: in 2023 police could send about 800 of some 12,000 daily notices, and 0.01% came back confirmed.

Outcome🔄 Ongoing

Evidence🏛️ Official

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Run byDirektorat Lalu Lintas, Polda Metro Jaya

Scale🏙️ City-wide

Part of 1001 Smart Cities — 1,167 documented projects · 🏙️ 10 more in Jakarta · 🚦 Traffic management guide · 🚲 Mobility projects

Jakarta's metropolitan police began electronic traffic enforcement on 1 November 2018, at first catching only red-light and lane-marking offences and later adding seat belts, phone use, speeding and the odd-even plate scheme. The camera network reached 98 sites by 2021 and more than 100 by 2025, with mobile units added. Notices go to the address on the vehicle registration; owners confirm or contest online. Delivery is the weak point: in 2023 police could post only about 800 of roughly 12,000 daily violations on their postage budget, and in January 2025 the traffic director put the confirmation rate at 0.01 percent. Manual ticketing, dropped in 2022, returned in 2023.

Live 📅 since 2018

📊 Impact

Police recorded 12,563 four-wheel vehicles ticketed in the first 243 days (1 November 2018 to 1 July 2019) and put camera-captured violations at roughly 10 million a month across the Jakarta metropolitan police area by July 2024. The Jakarta traffic director said only 0.01% of violations were confirmed by owners under the postal notice system (January 2025).

🎓 Lesson

Automating detection is the easy half. A camera network is only as strong as the address database and the postage budget behind it.

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Sources

↗ IDN Times — operating since 2018: the facts about ETLEConfirms the 1 November 2018 Jakarta start under the metropolitan police traffic directorate, the initial red-light and lane-marking scope, the later addition of seat belts, phone use, odd-even and speed, and the 12,563 four-wheel tickets over the first 243 days. The launch camera count is contested across sources (2 vs 12) and is deliberately not stated in the entry.

↗ Tribratanews Polri — 98 ETLE cameras installed in Jakarta and surroundingsOfficial police outlet, 25 March 2021: 98 ETLE cameras across Jakarta and buffer areas (57 existing plus 41 new). Source for the Jakarta-specific camera count, not the national total.

↗ ANTARA — the list of ETLE camera locations in Jakarta30 April 2025: more than 100 ETLE camera points in Jakarta, and the enforced violation list including breaches of the odd-even rule. This is the source pinning odd-even enforcement to the cameras.

↗ ANTARA — police admit the ticket postage budget is limited24 January 2023: the traffic director tells the Jakarta legislature that not all notices are sent, only about 800 a day, against roughly 12,000 daily violations, at Rp6,300 per letter. Source for the postage-budget bottleneck.

↗ detikNews — police now send ticket confirmations by WhatsApp17 January 2025: launch of the WhatsApp notification system, and the traffic director's statement that only 0.01 percent of people received a confirmation under the previous postal method.

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↗ CNA Indonesia — ticket notices move to WhatsApp21 January 2025: second outlet carrying the same 0.01 percent confirmation figure for the old method, plus the roughly 120 million violations a year the new system is designed for.

↗ Bloomberg Technoz — ETLE records 10 million violations a month9 July 2024: roughly 10 million violations captured monthly by ETLE cameras, per the traffic director. Explicitly scoped to the Jakarta metropolitan police area, not the national ETLE programme.

↗ Kompas — manual ticketing is back after being abolished16 May 2023: manual roadside ticketing reinstated in Jakarta after an October 2022 national police telegram had abolished it in favour of ETLE. Site blocks automated fetching; headline and content confirmed via search.

↗ Polri Mediahub — ETLE revitalisation targets 1,000 integrated cameras by 2026Official police source for the current state: 127 static cameras in the Jakarta metropolitan police area and a national traffic corps target of 1,000 integrated cameras by 2026. Supports the live status rather than a scale-back. Page rendered headline-only; the 127 figure is therefore not used in the snippet.

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📎 Cite this project

1001 Smart Cities (2026). “ETLE Camera Traffic Enforcement” — Jakarta, Indonesia. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/jakarta-etle-enforcement/ (last verified 2026-07-26). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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