JAKARTA - The government plans to provide incentives in the form of discounted plane tickets for the 2025 Christmas and 2026 New Year transportation periods. The plan is that the announcement of this discount will be made in the near future.
Minister of Transportation (Menhub) Dudy Purwagandhi said the provision of discounted aircraft tickets was aimed at encouraging community mobility during the Christmas 2025 and New Year 2026 periods. At the same time as a travel stimulus.
"Yes, he said it would be early on his plan (announcement of discounted plane tickets) for stimulus," said Dudy Purwagandhi to reporters after a working meeting with Commission V of the Indonesian House of Representatives, quoted Friday, September 5.
Budi said that his party is trying to announce the announcement of a discount on aircraft tickets this month. Currently, he said, it is still in the process and is waiting for further coordination with the Coordinating Ministry for the Economy, before it is officially determined.
"Hopefully it can be this month, later we will coordinate with the Coordinating Minister for the Economy," said Dudy.
Even so, Dudy admitted that he could not explain the scheme that would be implemented. This is because the formula is still in the discussion stage at this time.
"I don't know yet, is it the same as yesterday's stimulus or the same as the Nataru one who was last year," he said.
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Previously, the Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto said that the government would continue to provide economic stimulus to maintain people's purchasing power, especially ahead of the 2025 Christmas and New Year (Nataru) moments.
Airlangga conveyed that the stimulus to be given includes discounted transportation rates, plane tickets, trains, and toll roads.
"(Diskon) planes, toll roads, mostly trains," he told the media crew, Friday, July 25.
In order to welcome Christmas and New Year 2025, the government is also discussing a discount program which is expected to contribute to the national economy.
"The program will be Christmas New Year, we discussed the discounts yesterday, we hope that it can be announced earlier," he said.
However, he emphasized, the provision of discounted electricity rates is not included in the stimulus that will be given by the government for the second semester of 2025.
The plan is for the provision of this stimulus package to be announced no later than September 2025 and valid for two months, namely December 2025 to January 2026.
For information, the government has previously rolled out various economic stimuli in the period June to July 2025, coinciding with school holidays, to encourage domestic consumption and maintain people's purchasing power.
The economic stimulus package from June to July 2025 with a total allocated budget of IDR 24.44 trillion.
photo caption: Minister of Transportation Dudy Purwagandhi when met at the DPR RI Building, Jakarta/Mery Handayani
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