City Builds Android App to Accommodate Citizens' Reports

Jakarta Provincial Government is currently building an android application which will be used to accommodate citizens’ aspirations and complaints relating to trash piles, street vendors, damaged roads, security issues, et cetera.

If everything went well, the application can already be used by android users in upcoming December

“The application is similar to SafetiPin. The difference is that the reports in our application become ours,” stated Head of Jakarta Communication, Informatics and Public Relations Department, Bambang Setyowidodo, Monday (8/11).

According to Setyowidodo, the application can be downloaded on Google Playstore later. By installing the application, people can know about the condition of certain locations which will be marked with colored symbols.

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“For instance, red for not so safety environment, yellow for alert, and green that indicates safe. If everything went well, the application can already be used by android users in upcoming December,” he explained.

Setyowidodo also informed that the building of this application involves outside party, which is Google Map. The position chosen in this application is real-time, not imaging position. For this project, Jakarta Provincial Government has allocated budget as much as Rp 2 billion in the 2014 City Budget Amendment (APBDP).

“We haven’t gave name for this application, but it would definitely be city’s standard. We will formulate it, we’ve done analysis since March,” he told.