D-2 Lebaran, Surge In Homecomers Monitored At Ciwandan Port, Banten

Port ciwandan (intermediate)

JAKARTA - Travelers who will cross from Ciwandan Port, Cilegon City, Banten, to Sumatra experienced a surge on D-2 Lebaran, this Saturday morning.

From observations at the location at 05.00 WIB, there was a surge in travelers, as can be seen from the motorized vehicles of the travelers who had packed all 1.7 hectares of parking bags at the port.

Even so many vehicles, truck parking bags outside the motorcycle parking area are also used as additional parking lots.

Several travelers were observed resting at a number of MSME posts or tents available at Ciwandan Port while queuing to enter the port.

Until 06.10 WIB, motorcyclists continued to arrive and gradually also began to enter the ferry according to the schedule of their respective ships.

Meanwhile, Opik Maulana, a travelers from Bintaro, admitted that he had been waiting for the queue to get into the ship for about an hour. So he chose to rest for a while.

"It's been more or less an hour, waiting, on the way from Bintaro to Alhamdulillah Port, it went smoothly, there were no traffic jams," he said, quoting Antara.

He admitted that this was the first time he had tried going home before Lebaran. According to him, this is very tiring because of the queues and dense homecoming vehicles.

Based on data received from PT Pelindo Regional 2 Banten, a total of 60,205 passengers crossed from Java to Sumatra with 40,185 motorcycle vehicles up to D-2 Lebaran.

The realization of the total number of passengers crossing from Java to Sumatra on D-3 reached 48,472 people with a total of 32,590 motorcycle vehicles.