Jakarta Transportation Agency Prepares Buffer Zone to Ease Cakung-Cilincing Container Truck Congestion

The head of North Jakarta’s Transport Sub-Department (Sudinhub), Rudy Saptari Sulesuryana, said the congestion of container trucks along the Cakung-Cilincing route occurred because depot operations in the Tanjung Priok Port area were not running optimally. Officers are preparing a buffer zone to ease the gridlock.

“We observed this happening in the Cakung area of East Jakarta, with knock-on effects on North Jakarta,” said Rudy Saptari after attending a depot coordination meeting at the North Jakarta Metro Police headquarters, as reported by Antara on Wednesday (22/7/2026).

Rudy said his office convened a coordination meeting on loading and unloading management at container depots, held together with the North Jakarta Metro Police Traffic Unit, the Tanjung Priok Port Police Traffic Unit, trucking business operators and other parties.

“We are mitigating what has happened, the problems in Cakung, so they do not occur in North Jakarta,” Rudy said.

The second measure, he continued, is preparing a buffer zone — a holding area for parking or a waiting zone for logistics trucks before they are permitted to enter the port area.

“This buffer zone is intended so that vehicle queues do not form on public roads,” Rudy explained.

In addition, the Transport Department is deploying officers, both traffic police and Sudin Perhubungan officials, to implement a uniform standard operating procedure (SOP) at depots outside the Tanjung Priok Port area.

Rudy detailed that North Jakarta has more than 31 logistics truck depots spread across the local area.

He said these container trucks serve export and import activities. Trailer trucks also carry containers from Tanjung Priok Port to depots located outside the port area.

Furthermore, trucks queue to collect containers at the depots to be delivered into the port.

“It is in this process that congestion often occurs, namely queues at the depots, and that is what we are trying to mitigate together,” Rudy concluded.