First Day Of 2022, Pulogebang Terminal Is Quiet

Photo: Antara

JAKARTA – On the first day of 2022, the operator of the Pulogebang Integrated Terminal, East Jakarta, said that today's passenger situation is in a sloping condition after the peak of departure on Thursday, December 30.

"The situation of passengers from this morning until this afternoon at the Pulogebang Terminal is sloping," said Head of the Pulo Gebang Integrated Terminal, Bernard Pasaribu, quoting Antara, Saturday, January 1.

Bernard said, the peak of passenger departures to a number of cross-provincial areas reached 16,275 people, dominated by Central Java and East Java. They travel using 307 units of inter-provincial intercity buses (AKAP).

He said this number was still half of the highest passenger departure wave throughout 2021, which reached 32,844 people in April.

Bernard still said, the slowing down of passengers has occurred since the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic hit Indonesia in July 2021. The PPKM policy has made the number of passengers decrease from an average of tens of thousands per month. The lowest number of passengers occurred in August as many as 24 people.

"On Thursday, the number of passengers increased again because it coincided with the New Year holiday situation," he said.

For the number of buses provided during the New Year holidays as many as 264 units to various regions.

Bernard said that the travel requirements for passengers from Pulogebang Terminal are still the same as before, namely attaching evidence of a COVID-19 vaccine certificate at least the first dose, negative evidence of an antigen swab test for a maximum of 1x24 hours.

He said that the requirements were in accordance with Circular (SE) 109 of 2021 regarding the instructions for the implementation of domestic travel by land transportation during the Christmas period of 2021 and the new year of 2022.