Moeldoko Asks No Crowds Or Traffic During Christmas And New Year Holidays

JAKARTA - Presidential Chief of Staff Moeldoko asked all stakeholders involved in the 2021 Christmas and New Year holidays to go the extra mile in implementing standard health protocols. Given that the Christmas and New Year holidays were held in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

"There should be no accumulation of people and vehicles. No crowds and traffic jams. Prepare various scenarios and mitigations to break down the density at each point without exception, "said Moeldoko when he opened the Online Cross-Sector Coordination Meeting for Christmas and New Year 2021, Wednesday, December 23.

This is in accordance with the Covid-19 Handling Task Force Circular Number 3 of 2020 concerning the Health Protocol for People Travel During Christmas and New Year Holidays in the Covid-19 Pandemic Period. Moeldoko also asked all parties to anticipate the movement of people during the Nataru holiday, especially at critical points, traffic jams and vulnerable points for crowds.

"For example, with traffic engineering and a system for opening and closing roads and rest areas," added Moeldoko.

The coordination meeting was attended by Deputy I KSP Febry C Tetelepta, Deputy IV KSP Juri Ardiantoro and Deputy V KSP Jaleswari Pramodawardhani. As well as from the Ministry of Transportation, Ministry of Home Affairs, Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, Korlantas Polri, BUMN in the transportation and infrastructure sector as well as a number of local governments.

The meeting is to ensure that a number of sectors work optimally, including energy sufficiency and security and public order (Kamtibmas). "Because this is an extraordinary situation, we must manage it also with extraordinary."

“No more queues. Manage the queuing system properly, add officers and checkpoints, and prepare a holding area to break up the crowd, "he said.

At this coordination meeting, all Ministries / Agencies, Regional Governments, and TNI / Polri expressed their readiness to welcome Nataru 2020-2021. In fact, some of them have started preparations since December 18, 2020.

The Ministry of Transportation (Kemenhub) through the Directorate General of Land Transportation, Ministry of Transportation, explained that it will limit the traffic of certain goods vehicles to overcome congestion. In addition, it will add rest area facilities, to carry out a random check rapid antigen test.

The same is done by the Directorate General of Sea Transportation, which has prepared 1,186 fleets with a capacity of 3.35 million passengers. That way the readiness on the sea route is good enough and will not cause a crowd.

"We monitor all ports. Cooperation is also with PT Pelindo (Persero) as well as coordination with other relevant Ministries / Institutions, "said Director General of Sea Transportation of the Ministry of Transportation, Agus Purnomo.

Regarding the air route, the Ministry of Transportation has also implemented various aviation policies with reference to the Covid-19 Handling Task Force circular letter No.3 of 2020. As for the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, Pertamina and PLN ensure that they have prepared various efforts to provide energy availability, both from the electricity side to fuel oil.