Jakarta Governor Pramono Anung has threatened to revoke drivers' licenses and reprimand the trucking companies behind them, after two trucks hit city road infrastructure within 48 hours. "If necessary, the license or the permit will be revoked," Pramono said at City Hall on Friday, July 17, 2026.

The first incident happened around 1:30 a.m. on Tuesday, July 14, 2026, when a truck carrying a crane struck a pedestrian overpass on Jalan Kapten Tendean in Mampang Prapatan, South Jakarta. The truck was delivering heavy equipment to an Attorney General's Office construction project on Jalan Panglima Polim when it hit the overpass, badly damaging its support columns and forcing crews to tear the structure down. Jakarta's transportation agency, Dishub DKI, sent 30 officers to four locations, the crash site, the Mampang underpass, the Mampang flyover and the Pasar Santa traffic light, to manage traffic during the cleanup. Kompol Mujiyanto, the traffic police chief for South Jakarta, said no one was hurt.

Two days later, around 2:30 a.m. on Thursday, July 16, 2026, a concrete mixer truck got stuck under the Matraman Raya bridge in East Jakarta. Crews cleared it in about 1.5 hours without disrupting train service.

Why is Pramono only threatening license revocation now?

The threat came after two trucks struck road infrastructure in quick succession, and after the Jakarta city council, known as DPRD DKI, had been pushing since Wednesday, July 15, 2026, for operating permits to be pulled. Pramono said companies that let the pattern repeat would face a reprimand for failing to keep their drivers in line. His statement answers the council's pressure as much as it responds to the Tendean crash itself.

"If the company keeps doing the same thing, it will get a reprimand for not preparing disciplined drivers and so on. Jakarta cannot keep being disrupted by things like this," Pramono said.

Achmad Yani, a DPRD DKI member from the PKS faction, pushed for tougher measures. "Dishub and the Jakarta Metro traffic police need to take maximum legal action immediately, from revoking bus and truck companies' operating permits to criminal sanctions for drivers or vehicle owners," he said.

Why wasn't the Tendean truck driver detained despite the threat of harsh sanctions?

AKBP Ojo Ruslani, head of the law enforcement subdirectorate at the Jakarta Metro traffic police, said the Tendean driver's case was handled as a compensation claim and a traffic ticket, with no criminal proceedings. City Hall's rhetoric about pulling licenses runs in a different direction from what is actually happening on the ground, a gap that has drawn scrutiny since the council raised concerns about oversight of overloaded, oversized trucks.

The driver, identified only as Andre, 28, said the crash was his own fault: he was driving a route for the first time. "We were about two kilometers from arriving. We were focused on looking at Maps," he said, describing how his attention was on a navigation app when the truck hit the overpass.

Truck height limits and oversight of oversized loads

Indonesia's 2009 traffic law caps vehicle height at 4,200 millimeters. Height-limit signs have long stood on several routes, including the Matraman area, yet the concrete mixer truck got stuck there anyway. The problem lies in oversight and how well trucking companies comply, not in a lack of rules.

Dishub DKI plans to add more height-limit signs and tighten oversight of overloaded, oversized trucks, known locally as ODOL, together with the Jakarta Metro traffic police. Pramono will also hold a special meeting next week to decide on a compensation plan and the rebuilding of the Tendean overpass, with funding options including the city's revised budget, corporate social responsibility funds, a soft bank loan or a strategic partnership.

What to watch

Pramono's meeting next week will show whether the license-revocation threat turns into real legal action against the company that owns the Tendean truck, or whether it stops at compensation and a ticket, the same outcome Andre faced. Whether Dishub DKI follows through on new signage and tightens ODOL enforcement with the Jakarta Metro traffic police on high-risk routes also remains to be seen, before another truck hits something else.