(26 Jun 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Jakarta, Indonesia - 17 May 2025
1.Various of volunteers wearing reflecting vest, walking among traffic
2. SOUNDBITE (Indonesian) Siswanto (only one name given), volunteer:
"Since 2010, 2011, 2012 up to 2016, we have collected four tons of nail mines from volunteer friends. We have collected four tons of nails from Bekasi and other places."
3. Volunteers walking while pulling a wheeled tool with a magnet underneath to pick up nails on the road
4. Volunteer directing traffic with light stick
5. Volunteers stopping after sweeping one lane of the road
6. SOUNDBITE (Indonesian) Dian Anggraeni, Volunteer:
“After I finished sweeping nails from the road, I felt it was enough, I had done enough to reduce casualties. But even after I finished, I found more nails five or ten minutes later. It’s a bit annoying too, so I want this to end. It seems like it’s already over, no more nail traps, but they move to different locations again. That’s why it feels like we never finish.”
7. Various of volunteers removing nails attached to magnet before using it again to sweep the road
8. Volunteers sweeping nails off the street
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Jakarta, Indonesia - 21 May 2025
9. Street scenes, traffic on the road
STORYLINE:
Clad in reflective vests and waving traffic control sticks, a crew on a main road in central Jakarta cheerfully waved to people as they cleared hidden hazards with iron bars and circle magnets tied to ropes.
The volunteer team covered half a kilometer (0.3 miles) and scooped up a haul of sharp metal including nails, threaded bolts and scraps of umbrella frames.
Jakarta’s main roads are notorious for the patches of sharp metal pieces that are believed to be spread by vandals intent on damaging the tires of cars and motorbikes, usually on main roads where traffic moves fast.
Siswanto, a West Jakarta resident, began collecting metal from the streets in 2010.
Inspired by his efforts and fueled by their own bad experiences with the pesky tire traps, more Jakarta road users joined in.
The effort soon grew into a community known as the Sapu Bersih, also known as the Clean Sweep or Saber community.
“From 2010 to 2016, we collected 4 tons of the nail traps from Jakarta and other areas, like Bekasi. We collected them from the volunteers,” said Siswanto, now 51, who used a rope tied to a magnet to collect sharp pieces as he patrolled a roadside with a fellow volunteer.
After 15 years, the community members are still trying to clean the streets.
They take turns before they go to their workplaces in the morning or before returning home in the evening.
At least 250 grams (8.8 ounces) of metal pieces are collected every morning from several locations, Siswanto said.
When bikers hit the metal pieces, tires deflate relatively quickly.
“The nail trap is harmful. It particularly can damage tubeless tires. If it’s a small hole that can still be patched. If it’s a big on... [truncated]
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