Christmas And New Year Holidays, A Total Of 5.1 Million People Are Predicted To Go On A Train

Director General of Railways of the Ministry of Transportation Risal Wasal (right). (Photo: Mery Handayani/VOI)

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Transportation (Kemenhub) through the Directorate General of Railways estimates that 5.1 million people will travel during the 2022 Christmas and New Year 2023 holidays. Director General of Railways Risal Wasal said that during the Christmas and New Year holidays, the average daily passenger was 316,141 people.

"This year we predict that the number of passengers who will board the train during the Nataru period is 5.1 million during the Nataru period, with an average daily passenger of 316,141 people," he said at a press conference, Wednesday, December 14.

Risal said the highest number of passengers was predicted from December 24 to 25 and December 31, 2022 to January 1, 2023.

Ordering train tickets for Christmas holidays can be ordered from D-45. This means that with these conditions, KAI can predict when the peak flow of Christmas and New Year's homecoming will be.

"With these conditions, we can anticipate more to determine when the peak of train travel will be and we anticipate services for railways," he said.

Previously, the President Director of PT Kereta Api Indonesia (Persero) or KAI Didiek Hartantyo revealed that the sale of train tickets for the 2022 Christmas and 2023 New Year holidays had sold 10.1 percent of the 5.56 million total tickets provided by KAI.

The realization was made as of December 13, 2022 at 21.00 WIB.

"We have sold 563,478 seats or 10.1 percent of the capacity we have provided 5,562,836," he said in a working meeting with Commission VI of the DPR, Wednesday, December 14.

Didiek said that his party also anticipates an increase in passengers on certain days, namely December 23, 24, and 25.

On that date, he said, KAI provided seats of more than the average, namely 311,000 seats per day. Furthermore, he explained, as well as disrupting seats on December 30, 31, 2022, January 1 and January 6, 2023, 311,000 seats per day were also provided.

"We anticipate that by distributing the number of trips and the number of seats, so that the public interest in this potential passenger we can carry out as well as possible," he said.

To anticipate the surge in passengers, KAI also adds 51 trips every day. So that the total train journey is 484 trains per day during the Nataru 2022-2023 holiday period.

"From 18 days, we anticipate the possibility of the peak, our prediction is that in one day there will be 264,000 passengers. So we anticipate the construction like this," he said.