Road Use Permit for Personal Purposes

The way to obtain a permit to close a road or use a road for personal purposes is to submit a written request to the authorities. This request can be submitted to the local Regional Police Chief (Kapolda), which can be delegated to the Director of Traffic for activities that use national and provincial roads, the Head of the Resort Police/Metropolitan Police (Kapolres/Kapolresta) for activities that use regency/city roads, or the Head of the Sector Police (Kapolsek/Kapolsekta) for activities that use village roads.

This permit application must be submitted no later than 7 working days before the implementation of the activity by attaching requirements in the form of a photocopy of the organizer's or person in charge's ID card, implementation time, type of activity, estimated number of participants, map of the activity location and alternative roads to be used, as well as a letter of recommendation from the provincial/regency/city work unit of the regional apparatus that handles land transportation government affairs or the village head/lurah.

However, if the permit is for the use of the road for a death procession, the application can be submitted in writing or orally to a Polri official without regard to the submission deadline stipulated in the requirements above.

Thus, a person can hold a wedding party by closing part of the road by setting up a tent if they have obtained a road use permit for personal purposes other than for traffic activities. Hopefully this explanation is useful.