After Old Operator Sealed, DKI Transportation Agency Seeks New Manager for Blok M Square Parking

JAKARTA - The DKI Jakarta Transportation Agency, through its Parking Management Unit, will seek a new operator to manage the parking at Blok M Square in South Jakarta. Head of the UP Parkir at the DKI Transportation Agency, Massdes Arouffy, stated that they will open a tender to determine the replacement operator. In the meantime, parking management will be temporarily taken over by the UP Parkir. “So now, we are taking over temporarily while we prepare to tender for the replacement operator that was sealed,” Massdes said at the Blok M Square area on Wednesday (14/5/2026). Additionally, the operator must continue the parking system with non-cash or cashless payment methods. According to Massdes, the full implementation of a cashless system is expected to make revenue recording more transparent and prevent local revenue leakage. “What is hoped is that if this system is upgraded to full cashless, it can increase (the revenue), nothing will slip through. Because the previous one still had some cash payments,” Massdes said. To support visitor comfort and anticipate illegal levies by rogue parking attendants, the government is collaborating with law enforcement for on-site supervision. Visitors who feel disadvantaged by rogue parking attendants can report to the officers on duty at the location. These officers consist of four personnel from the Transportation Agency, one member each from the TNI and Police, and one additional officer appointed by the Blok M Square management. Previously, six gates in the Blok M area were sealed by the Transportation Agency and the DPRD DKI Jakarta’s Special Parking Committee on Monday afternoon (11/5/2026). Head of the DPRD DKI Jakarta’s Special Parking Committee, Ahmad Lukman Jupiter, said they found allegations of illegal levies over the past three years by the parking operator, Best Parking. Blok M, which is always crowded, is estimated to generate parking revenue of up to Rp 100 million per day. However, the levies submitted to the local government are not more than 60 percent of that. The parking operator also did not submit financial reports matching its revenue. “The revenue potential here is more than Rp 3 billion per month. That means in one day it can reach Rp 100 million. I think in the Blok M area, which is very busy, it is an economic hub and the parking revenue here is very large,” Jupiter said when met at Blok M on Monday. He urged the authorities, including the Regional Revenue Agency (Bapenda) to the Financial Audit Agency (BPK) and the DKI Jakarta High Prosecutor’s Office, to further investigate the parking operator’s financial reports.