BANDUNG KLIK HELM

BY VANIA EMMANUELA FROM INDONESIA

Strapped Helmet Community
Motorcyclists suffered most injuries and deaths, by 74% of injured victims and 69% of deaths in Bandung. This motivates the team to create this project as a form of contribution to reduce the number of deaths due to head injuries in motorcycle accidents in Bandung. The project will be made up of two key actions; the establishment of a Community Group of Strapped-Helmet, whose members are gathered from Bandung’s online motorcycle taxi and delivery drivers community, and also volunteers from college students in Bandung. This will emphasize the importance of peer-to-peer engagement to be able to monitor each other, admonish, and remind motorcyclists.

The second action is the collaboration and revival of an ongoing campaign, klikbiarselamat, for the campaign. This will include the provision of at least 50 additional CCTV cameras, installed at points prone to traffic accidents and crowded by motorized vehicle users in Bandung.

The project seeks to address the concern to appropriate stakeholders to discuss the installation of additional CCTV in order to detect violations of helmet usage.

The goal of the project is to reduce the number of deaths due to head injuries in motorcycle accidents in Bandung City, Indonesia

ABOUT THE PROJECT LEAD

Vania is a 23-year-old Medical Student (Clinical Year) at the Faculty of Medicine, Padjadjaran University, Indonesia. She and her team are part of CARS Indonesia: Center for youth Actions on Road Safety Unpad.

Motorcycles are the main choice of transportation in her city. While wearing a strapped helmet is considered a generally simple act, it is ironic that head injury has a major contribution to death in motorcycle accidents. As medical students, Vania and her team want to contribute to reducing the number of deaths due to head injuries in motorcycle accidents caused by said improper use of helmets in Bandung.

PROJECT UPDATES

Local Actions winner leads helmet community in Indonesia

For her Local Actions project, Vania Emmanuela and her team have successfully organized Focus Group Discussions with youth and motorcycle taxi drivers. The discussion had 57 participants who were engaged in an open discussion on the safety of motorcycle drivers with a special emphasis on the proper use of helmets.

ABOUT THE LEAD ORGANISATION

cars indonesia

Description: CARS Indonesia: Center for Youth Actions on Road Safety Indonesia, is an independent, non-profit and non-governmental youth organization, consisting of students and practitioners in the health field that are concerned about road safety issues. CARS Indonesia focuses its activities on education and advocacy activities to achieve the mission of “Through youths' actions for safer and healthier roads!”. First formed in 2018, this organization was first initiated by the Road Safety Working Group under Health System Research Center, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Padjadjaran in Bandung, Indonesia. Numerous activities have been conducted. Those are, campaigns on Safe Driving for the public of Bandung through talk shows, awareness and educational medias on roads, became surveyors in a research project under Bloomberg Initiatives for Global Road Safety (BIGRS) in cooperation with John Hopkins International Injury Research Unit (JHIIRU) and Faculty of Medicine Unpad.