1.7 Million People Expected to Leave Bali During Lebaran Homecoming 2026

ILLUSTRATION/Mengwi Terminal, Badung, Bali/DOK ANTARA

DENPASAR - The Bali Transportation Office (Dishub) estimates that a total of 1.7 million people will leave or leave Bali during the 2026 Lebaran homecoming period with an estimated peak homecoming flow on March 17.

"The people who went out of Bali Lebaran 2025 were 1.658 million, this year (2026) increased by approximately 4 percent (to 1.724 million), and we predict the peak of the homecoming flow on March 17," said Head of Bali Dishub I Kadek Mudarta in Denpasar, Tuesday, March 10. reported by ANTARA.

Mudarta explained that based on the annual pattern, when the peak of the homecoming flow on March 17, the number of passengers and vehicles that will enter and exit will increase by 4 percent from the condition in 2025 with 30 thousand vehicles and 170 thousand passengers, or about 31,200 vehicles and 176,800 people.

In Bali, the homecoming flow of Eid al-Fitr tends to show a high number of people going outside Bali, this year their movement will start from March 14.

For this reason, in order to ensure the smooth flow of the homecoming route, Bali Dishub together with the police formed the Lebaran Transportation Post since March 13, 2026 at 26 post points throughout Bali.

The significant increase, especially at the Gilimanuk Port and I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport, will be felt starting March 16 with the peak on March 17, because on March 19 Bali Province will carry out Nyepi Day.

"The peak is that in the Gilimanuk Port it starts on March 16 and then March 17, with a national difference because if in Bali Nyepi, people anticipate Nyepi so they tend to be earlier than movements in other places where there is no Nyepi, let alone there is a series of Pengerupukan so there is movement," said Mudarta.

The Lebaran Transportation Post will stand until March 29, 2026, where the total movement in and out of Bali is projected to be 365 thousand vehicles with 2.468 million passengers.

To anticipate the accumulation and the start of Nyepi Day, on March 19, at 06.00 WITA, the Bali Police urged prospective travelers to map out their travel plans.

Meanwhile, to anticipate the accumulation at crossings such as the Gilimanuk Port, Mudarta said that a buffer zone or buffer zones had been prepared to reduce the number of queues on the highway.

"Buffer zones are in several areas, both in the logistics port, then in Cekik, then the terminal, there are several buffer zones that have been prepared, in addition to the delay system or travelers are diverted to alternative roads so that they do not pile up on the national road," he said.

After many passengers left Bali, Mudarta said they would return when the reverse flow is expected to surge on March 25 and 28, 2026.