East Java Regional Police Puts Restrictions On Toll Road Rest Areas

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SURABAYA - East Java Police Traffic Director Kombes Latif Usman confirmed that his party had imposed restrictions on rest areas in toll road areas in the local area during the 2021 Christmas and 2022 New Year holidays.

"Toll roads will be controlled, and there (rest area) random sampling checks will be carried out for motorists," he said, quoted by Antara, Monday, December 27.

Drivers who will enter the rest area are required to apply strict health protocols, such as capacity of only 75 percent and using the PeduliLindung application.

According to Kombes Latif, the police cooperated with the Health Service to check randomly, and did not even rule out an antigen test.

Meanwhile, regarding the flow of traffic up to now, according to him, the vehicles entering East Java have not seen an increase and it is estimated that from Jakarta they have been sorted in West Java and Central Java.

"So in East Java, we just have to accept the remnants. It's still sloping," he said.

However, his party will not slack off in guarding a number of places in East Java from crowds of people, especially on New Year's Eve 2022.

"We will pay attention to public places that will become places for community gatherings, including diversion of traffic and until closing," he said.

Previously, East Java Governor Khofifah Indar Parawansa appealed to the public to limit mobility ahead of the holiday period in the framework of Christmas 2021 and the new year 2022.

"I ask that all residents of East Java can still minimize their mobility. Because, last year's experience when there was a holiday period, 14 days later there tended to be a spike," he said.

The appeal, he said, was followed by several concrete efforts in the transportation and tourism sectors to anticipate the entry of the third wave, especially the new variant of the COVID-19 virus, Omicron.

Not only urging the public, Governor Khofifah explained that concrete steps were needed to anticipate the entry of the new virus.