Jasa Marga Predicts 1.86 Million Vehicles Leave Jabotabek During The 2024 Eid Holiday

Jasa Marga's Corporate Communication & Community Development Group Head Lisye Octaviana. (Photo: Theresia Agatha / VOI)

JAKARTA - PT Jasa Marga (Persero) Tbk predicts as many as 1.86 million vehicles will leave Jakarta, Bogor, Tangerang, and Bekasi (Jabotabek) during the Eid 2024 holiday period.

This figure is calculated in the period of the H-7 homecoming flow to D+2 Eid Al-Fitr 1445 H or during April 3-April 11, 2024.

Jasa Marga's Corporate Communication & Community Development Group Head Lisye Octaviana said the increase in vehicles on toll roads rose by 54.13 percent compared to normal traffic and rose 5.94 percent from the Eid 2023 period.

"There will be about 1.8 million vehicles leaving the Jabotabek area. We will count at Jasa Marga's four main toll gates," Lisye said at a press conference at Jasa Marga Headquarters, Jakarta, Thursday, March 21.

The four main Jasa Marga toll gates include GT Cikampek Utama and GT Kalihurip Utama (directions to Trans Java and Bandung), GT Ciawi (direction to Puncak) and GT Cikupa (direction to Merak).

Lisye explained that the distribution of traffic (traffic) vehicles leaving the Jabotabek area in that period was the majority heading to the East (Trans Java and Bandung) of 58.4 percent, to the West (Merak) of 22.9 percent and to the South (Puncak) of 18.8 percent.

As for the moment of Eid al-Fitr 2024, Jasa Marga predicts that the peak of the homecoming flow will occur on D-4 Lebaran or Saturday, April 6, 2024, with the traffic spike reaching 259,087 vehicles.

That figure is up 0.03 percent compared to the same period last year and up 66.8 percent compared to normal traffic.

Meanwhile, the peak of reverse flow itself is predicted to occur on April 15, 2024 or D+4 Eid with the total number of vehicles passing is estimated to reach 300,722 vehicles, an increase of 13.2 percent compared to the same period last year or an increase of 131 percent compared to normal traffic.