Jakarta, Sept. 29 -- The number of vehicles plying on Jakarta's main streets dropped 21 percent in the first week of the large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) policy in the capital, according to the traffic police.

"In comparison with a week before the PSBB, the number of motor vehicles moving on Jakarta's main streets fell by 18-21 percent in the first week of PSBB," Traffic Director of the Jakarta Metropolitan Police Senior Commissioner Sambodo Purnomo Yogo stated here on Tuesday.

Most motorists work in offices including those on the Sudirman and MH Thamrin streets, he remarked.

A total of 89,446 vehicles plied on the Sudirman and MH Thamrin streets on Monday (Sept 7), Chief of the Law Enforcement Sub-directorate of the Traffic Dire...