Trying To Rise From The Impact Of The Pandemic, Let's Move On To The Sumatra Roadshow Bus

JAKARTA - The pandemic has a huge impact, including for the transportation sector. Travel tightening to prevent the spread of COVID-19 will inevitably have an impact on transportation.

Now, in the midst of the government's efforts to deal with COVID-19, one of which is through vaccination, land transportation actors are trying to get up. Autobus business players are pushing for a revival of land transportation as well as a road transport safety campaign.

The goal is to socialize to the public about land transportation modes such as buses with various facilities.

"I support this movement, because the current social media is very good for promoting land transportation, especially to the younger generation," said the Minister of Transportation Budi Karya Sumadi when opening the "Sumatra 2021 Roadshow", which was organized by the Indonesian Young Autobus Entrepreneurs Association (IPOMI), in Jakarta, Sunday, March 14th.

Of course, promotion on social media is expected to increase public confidence in taking the bus when traveling far.

To echo the revival movement of autobus business players, IPOMI is holding the Sumatra Roadshow 2021 to show how active the land transportation industry is, especially buses. This roadshow is also to see road infrastructure in Sumatra with the toll roads that are already connected from Lampung to Palembang.

IPOMI Chairman Kurnia Lesani Adnan, who was the pioneer of the movement, said that the pandemic conditions had a direct impact on the road transportation industry, especially buses. Therefore, joint efforts to revive this industry are believed to have a positive impact.

"This movement is one way," he said.