The Riau Islands Class II Land Transportation Management Agency (BPTD) continues to optimize services during Eid Al-Fitr 1446 Hijri/2025 homecoming with a focus on anticipating the density of prospective passengers at the port.
"Reflecting on last year's homecoming experience at Tanjung Uban, Bintan, and Punggur Ports, there were queues of vehicles that wanted to cross, queues to leave the parking area," said Head of BPTD II Riau Islands, Dini Kusumahati Damarintan, confirmed in Batam, Monday, March 24, which was confiscated by Antara.
According to Dini, several efforts made to anticipate this density are to prepare additional parking bags or buffer zones around the port.
His party, he said, had coordinated with the Batam Concession Agency (BP) to provide additional parking bags in the form of buffer zones.
"So later all people who will enter the port will be put into the buffer zone first, when the time is 60-120 minutes before the ship's departure, they will be put in," said Dini.
Then, the online ticket system that is now being implemented is also expected to reduce passenger queues at the port. Because only those who have ordered online tickets already have to be at the port.
BPTD II Kepri ensures that there will be no more direct ticket services, so people who do not have tickets cannot buy tickets at ports.
"For the scheme in Tanjung Uban, because it is online, hopefully this will reduce density, we will have a normal scheme, a dense scheme and a very dense scheme. Parking bags and buffer zones have been prepared, if an incident like last year happened again, it's easy not because it's online," he said.
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Based on data from the Transportation Policy Agency of the Ministry of Transportation, the potential for the movement of people who go home and back in the Riau Islands area only contributes 0.5 percent, namely travelers from traveling as many as 700 thousand passengers, and travelers to Riau Islands only 0.4 percent or 600 thousand passengers.
The highest percentage of people's movement in the homecoming season is on the island of Java, which is 6.6 percent.
However, continued Dini, his party has prepared various facilities to support the smooth flow of homecoming and back to Lebaran 2025.
"We set up a Eid post as of March 21 to April 11. It is predicted that the peak of the homecoming flow will occur on D-2 Eid and the peak of backflow on D+4 Eid or Saturday, April 5," said Dini.
In this 2025 homecoming, BPTD Kepri predicts passengers and crossing transport vehicles will increase by 20 percent of vehicles, and 29 percent of passengers.
From this figure, the first largest trip was for the province, namely from Punggur Port to Tanjung Uban Port and the second from Punggur to Kuala Tungkal.
Then, for the readiness of public transportation facilities in Riau Islands, he said, for pioneer ships in six routes in five districts/cities.
The condition of the ferry at Telaga Punggur Port should have 11 ships, but only nine are operating, the rest are under repair.
Meanwhile, regarding the restrictions on goods transportation vehicles, the policy is under the authority of the provincial government, except for logistics goods or basic necessities transportation vehicles.
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