The rule is written around the plate, not around you. A passenger cannot make a car legal by being a tourist, by having a flight to catch or by paying more, and there is no category in the regulation for either of those situations. What changes is the route your driver takes, which is why the odd-even system usually shows up in a traveller's day as an unexplained detour through side streets rather than as a police stop.
What the regulation actually says
Jakarta's odd-even restriction is set out in a provincial governor's regulation, not in a police order or a temporary notice. The founding instrument is Peraturan Gubernur Nomor 155 Tahun 2018 tentang Pembatasan Lalu Lintas Dengan Sistem Ganjil-Genap, enacted and promulgated on 31 December 2018 and recorded as still in force (checked 16 September 2026). Its Pasal 2 states the mechanism in one line: a driver of a vehicle with four or more wheels whose plate number is odd is prohibited from crossing the listed road sections on an even date, and the number in question is the final digit of the plate (Pergub 155/2018, scanned text, checked 16 September 2026).
Two amendments sit on top of it. Peraturan Gubernur Nomor 88 Tahun 2019, promulgated on 6 September 2019, rewrote the road list, the hours and the exemptions after a trial expansion run between 12 August and 6 September 2019 (checked 16 September 2026). Peraturan Gubernur Nomor 76 Tahun 2020, promulgated on 11 August 2020, inserted a Pasal 4A exempting vehicles carrying a special marking for health workers during the Covid-19 response, and is also recorded as in force (checked 16 September 2026).
The hours and days come from Pasal 3 of the 2019 amendment, and they are the part worth memorising. The restriction applies Monday to Friday from 06:00 WIB to 10:00 WIB and from 16:00 WIB to 21:00 WIB, and Pasal 3 ayat (3) states that it does not apply on Saturdays, Sundays and national holidays set by Presidential Decree (Pergub 88/2019, scanned text, checked 16 September 2026). The same article dates the current scheme from 9 September 2019.
A search of the national legal database for odd-even regulations returns no later DKI Jakarta amendment than the 2020 one (JDIH BPK RI search results for "ganjil-genap", checked 16 September 2026), and the Jakarta provincial government's own standing page on the scheme describes the same days, the same hours and the same road list (Ganjil Genap, Pemerintah Provinsi DKI Jakarta, page dated 9 June 2023, checked 16 September 2026).
The 26 roads on the list
The 26 roads covered by Jakarta's odd-even rule are named one by one in the regulation, lettered a to z, with no general phrase such as "and connecting roads". As listed in Pasal 1 of Pergub 88/2019 they are:
- Jalan Pintu Besar Selatan
- Jalan Gajah Mada
- Jalan Hayam Wuruk
- Jalan Majapahit
- Jalan Medan Merdeka Barat
- Jalan M.H. Thamrin
- Jalan Jenderal Sudirman
- Jalan Sisingamangaraja
- Jalan Panglima Polim
- Jalan Fatmawati, from the Jalan Ketimun 1 junction to the Jalan TB Simatupang junction
- Jalan Suryopranoto
- Jalan Balikpapan
- Jalan Kyai Caringin
- Jalan Tomang Raya
- Jalan Jenderal S. Parman, from the Jalan Tomang Raya junction to Jalan Gatot Subroto
- Jalan Gatot Subroto
- Jalan M.T. Haryono
- Jalan H.R. Rasuna Said
- Jalan D.I. Panjaitan
- Jalan Jenderal A. Yani, from the Jalan Bekasi Timur Raya junction to the Jalan Perintis Kemerdekaan junction
- Jalan Pramuka
- Jalan Salemba Raya Sisi Barat
- Jalan Salemba Raya Sisi Timur, from the Jalan Paseban Raya junction to the Jalan Diponegoro junction
- Jalan Kramat Raya
- Jalan St. Senen
- Jalan Gunung Sahari
Read the list as a shape rather than as 26 separate facts. It traces the central spine through Thamrin and Sudirman, the inner ring along Gatot Subroto, S. Parman, M.T. Haryono and D.I. Panjaitan, and the older commercial streets of Kota and Senen. Four entries are not whole roads but defined stretches between two named junctions, so a driver may legally use part of Fatmawati, S. Parman, A. Yani or Salemba Raya Sisi Timur and not the rest.
Who is exempt, and why it matters
Thirteen lettered categories of vehicle are exempt under Pasal 4 of Pergub 88/2019, and the list is specific enough to read as a checklist. It covers vehicles with a special marking carrying a person with a disability; ambulances; fire appliances; public transport vehicles with a yellow-base number plate; vehicles driven by an electric motor; motorcycles; special goods vehicles carrying fuel or gas; vehicles of the heads of the high state institutions of the Republic of Indonesia; operational service vehicles on red-base plates, and those of the armed forces and the national police; vehicles of visiting foreign leaders, foreign state officials and international bodies; vehicles giving assistance at a road accident; cash-in-transit vehicles for Bank Indonesia, interbank transfers and ATM replenishment under police supervision; and vehicles for particular purposes under escort or at the discretion of police officers (Pergub 88/2019, scanned text, checked 16 September 2026). Pergub 76/2020 adds the health-worker category.
The entry that decides most visitors' journeys is the fourth one, and it is written as a plate colour rather than as a business model. What the regulation exempts is an angkutan umum vehicle carrying a number plate with a yellow background. A privately registered car with an ordinary plate does not become exempt because it was booked through an app, and no category in the list covers cars hired out for private journeys.
The table below maps the vehicle you are likely to be sitting in against what the regulation says about it.
| Vehicle | Status on the 26 roads | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Yellow-base plate, registered as angkutan umum | Exempt | Pasal 4 huruf d |
| Electric-motor vehicle | Exempt | Pasal 4 huruf e |
| Motorcycle, including a two-wheel ride-hail | Exempt | Pasal 4 huruf f |
| Private car on an ordinary plate | Restricted | No exemption listed |
| Ambulance or fire appliance | Exempt | Pasal 4 huruf b, c |
Two consequences follow for a traveller. A conventional metered taxi operated as public transport on a yellow plate is in a different legal position from a private car dispatched by an app, even when both arrive at your hotel door within a minute of each other. And an electric car is exempt whatever it is being used for, which is why a growing number of app-dispatched electric vehicles can take the direct route on a day when their combustion-engine equivalent cannot.
What happens to your taxi or ride-hail
Your taxi or ride-hail car is affected by Jakarta's odd-even rule through its plate and its registration, and you will usually find out indirectly. Navigation systems used by drivers in Jakarta apply the corridor restriction automatically, so a non-exempt car is routed around the listed roads rather than through them. The route you get at 08:30 on a Tuesday is therefore not the route you would get at 11:30 on the same Tuesday, and the difference is distance and time rather than any visible enforcement.
Two habits follow. Check the date against the last digit of the plate before a long trip in restricted hours, because a mismatch tells you a detour is coming; and if a car cancels on you between 06:00 and 10:00 or 16:00 and 21:00 near Sudirman or Thamrin, an odd-even mismatch is a likelier explanation than anything else.
Rail is the one way to sidestep the question altogether, since the restriction applies to road vehicles only. The MRT line beneath Jalan M.H. Thamrin and Jalan Jenderal Sudirman runs under the most heavily restricted corridor in the city, and the TransJakarta busway operates vehicles in the public transport category.
Airport runs and the peak-hour trap
An airport run through central Jakarta is where the odd-even rule costs a visitor the most time, because it collides with exactly the hours travellers use. A morning departure that has you leaving a hotel on Jalan Jenderal Sudirman at 07:00, and an evening flight that has you leaving at 17:00, both fall inside a restricted window. The toll road itself is not restricted, but Jalan Jenderal Sudirman, Jalan Gatot Subroto, Jalan Jenderal S. Parman and Jalan Tomang Raya are all on the list, and between them they carry much of the surface traffic that feeds the western toll entrances used for Soekarno-Hatta International Airport.
Build the buffer into the booking rather than into the drive. Add time for a transfer that starts inside either window, and treat a Saturday, a Sunday or a gazetted national holiday as the one day the direct route is available at any hour, since Pasal 3 ayat (3) switches the scheme off on those days entirely.
Fines, cameras and who is liable
Enforcement of the odd-even rule is not carried in the governor's regulation itself, which is a detail travellers are rarely told. Pasal 8 of Pergub 155/2018 states only that violations are subject to sanctions in accordance with the prevailing legislation, and Pasal 7 assigns implementation to the head of the transport agency. The penalty therefore comes from the national road traffic law, Undang-undang Nomor 22 Tahun 2009 tentang Lalu Lintas Dan Angkutan Jalan, which the national legal database records as in force (checked 16 September 2026).
The figure the Jakarta provincial government publishes is a maximum. Its standing page on the scheme states that offenders face a maximum fine of IDR 500,000 under Pasal 287, enforced both by officers on the street and by electronic ticketing (Ganjil Genap, Pemerintah Provinsi DKI Jakarta, checked 16 September 2026). We were unable to open the scanned text of the 2009 law itself to confirm the wording of Pasal 287, so treat the amount as the provincial government's published figure rather than as a quotation from the statute, and note that a maximum is not the same thing as a standard charge.
What to check before you travel
Check three things before a Jakarta journey that falls inside the restricted hours. First, the date: an even date lets even-ending plates through, an odd date lets odd-ending plates through. Second, whether your route touches any of the 26 named roads, since a journey that avoids all of them is unaffected. Third, whether the day is a gazetted national holiday, which suspends the scheme completely.
This guide covers the permanent scheme as written in the provincial regulations and as published by the Jakarta provincial government. It does not cover short-term suspensions or temporary expansions announced by the police or the transport agency around major holidays, large events or air-quality emergencies, which are issued as operational notices rather than as amendments to the regulation. The Dinas Perhubungan news feed at dishub.jakarta.go.id/berita carried no odd-even notice among its most recent items when checked on 16 September 2026, but that is the page to look at before a trip. It also does not cover parking rules, bus lane enforcement or any congestion charge, none of which are part of this regulation.