Improving Road Safety
in the OIC Member States
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Road Safety Data
To get a better insight in the road safety, organised data is very important. Indonesia has a new
data system named the IRSMS Accident Information System. IRSMS is designed to provide valid,
reliable and verified data for road accidents in Indonesia. Access to comprehensive, reliable and
accurate road accident data makes it possible to identify specific roads, vehicles and road users
which need to be targeted with road safety interventions (M. Naufal Yahya et al., 2013).
At present, data is collected by police filling in a notebook entry or a paper accident report form
at the accident site. This information is later entered in the database at the police station. The
information that is entered is mostly the location of the accident, geographical coordinates,
name of the road, photographic evidence and recordings of witness statements. Additional
documents can also be attached to the accident record. Output from the system is designed to
serve for prosecution, investigation, planning and accident analysis purposes. Thus, it is very
important for the police to be present at the accident site to gather the actual data.
Pillar 1: Road safety management
Indonesia plans to reduce the traffic fatalities to less than 13,200 deaths by the end of 2020. A
five-year program of action was established with assistance from the World Bank, the AusAID-
funded Indonesia Infrastructure Initiative, the Asian Development Bank, and other stakeholders
(Arwar, 2014). A particular priority is for road safety partnership actions among stakeholders
to improve capacity by strengthening coordination and management of road safety. There are
some programs that have a high priority since the demand is great (M. Naufal Yahya et al., 2013).
These programs include:
 The improvement of traffic education for children and the improvement of the system for
issuing driver licenses.
 Testing new traffic police actions, including speed enforcement and the drunk driving / drug
driving enforcement.
 Studies of locations with a high number of crashes to have a better insight in making
decisions regarding road safety engineering.
 Improvement of the traffic accident data recording system and improving the quality of
traffic accident investigations.
The Indonesian National Police has an independent agency called the Indonesian National
Traffic Police Corps. This police corps is tasked with addressing and enforcing road safety in
Indonesia.While there is training capability at the Police Academy in Semarang and at the Traffic
Education Centre near Jakarta, operational traffic policing capability can be improved to detect,
containing and reducing illegal road behaviours and to change inappropriate or risky
behaviours (M. Naufal Yahya et al., 2013).
The Government of Indonesia drafted the National General Plan for Traffic and Road
Transportation Safety and released it on 11 May 2011. This general plan reflects the goals
outlined for the UN Decade of Action for Road Safety and incorporates the five pillars listed in
the Decade of Action There are a number of activities envisaged and undertaken under the Road