Ahead Of The 2024 Eid Homecoming, Minister Of Home Affairs Tito Karnavian Asks Local Governments To Beware Of Spilled Markets

JAKARTA - Minister of Home Affairs (Mendagri) Tito Karnavian asked local governments to start to be vigilant regarding the flow of Eid homecoming in 2024. Especially regarding safety and street conditions during the homecoming period. Including the spilled market.

Furthermore, Tito said, Indonesia is one of the countries with the highest homecoming mobility in the world. Therefore, local governments need to be vigilant.

"We will be aware of the flow of homecoming and backflow, this has become an annual ritual. Indonesia is known for its one country with millions of homecoming and backflow, tens, hundreds of millions of people instead," Tito said at the Food Supply and Price Security Coordination Meeting Ahead of Fasting and Eid Al-Fitr, at the Kempinski Grand Ballroom, Jakarta, Monday, March 4.

Tito said the condition of the homecoming flow would also affect the transportation situation. He said, in Java and Sumatra there is already a pattern of homecoming flow.

"Friends of regional heads, who are in Java, Sumatra, already have a pattern of homecoming and backflow. But don't be careless about new changes, such as spilled markets and others," he explained.

Tito said that the existence of toll roads that connect areas in Indonesia is quite able to ease the mobilization of homecoming. However, it is quite effective only on the island of Java.

Meanwhile, for outside Java, Tito continued, it is necessary to pay attention to the security aspects of other modes of transportation. For example, the mode of transportation of ships or crossings, to airplanes.

"Sea transportation please properly order and check ports where ship facilities carrying passengers are required to prepare buoys," he explained.

Tito said the sinking ship accident did not only occur on the island of Java. Therefore, the use of buoys must be a habit.

"Wearing a buoy, this should be our habit, because there are many incidents, in the flow of homecoming and backflow it is an accident, not an accident in Java but a ship accident sinking, overloading," he said.