BANDUNG - West Java Governor M Ridwan Kamil said around 14.9 million people will go home or return to their hometowns to the West Java region on the momentum of Eid Al-Fitr 1443 Hijri / Lebaran 2022 AD.
"Out of a total of 85.5 million travelers, around 14.9 million will return to West Java, they are West Java," said Ridwan Kamil at Gedung Sate Bandung, reported by Antara, Tuesday, April 19.
Meanwhile, West Java residents who will return home between cities within provinces or between cities between provinces, continued Ridwan Kamil, are estimated to reach 9.2 million people.
"We have 9.2 million people from West Java who left their homes to go home, either within the province or outside the province. Of course, we will continue to be on alert, because we haven't been going home for two years," he said.
According to him, as many as 500 homecoming posts will be established by the West Java Provincial Government in collaboration with the West Java Regional Police.
"In preparation for Eid, there will be approximately 500 posts prepared by the West Java Provincial Government and the West Java Regional Police. Then there is a management system for the homecoming flow on April 28-30 2022, there will be one direction from Jakarta-Cirebon-Central Java," he said.
"So that from Bandung or from anywhere on that date it will be arranged not to use toll roads but through primary roads, arteries or ordinary roads," continued Ridwan Kamil.
Meanwhile, Deputy Chief of the West Java Police (Wakapolda Jabar) Brigadier General Bariza Sulfi said there were three trends in the momentum of the 2022 Eid homecoming flow in the West Java region.
"The first is the West Java trend as a homecoming destination, the second is the West Java trend as a homecoming route and the third is the West Java trend as a tourist destination," he said.
According to the Deputy Chief of the West Java Police, the three trends should serve as guidelines in overcoming the flow of Lebaran homecoming this year so that the implementation runs smoothly.
"Actually, regarding going home, we have started from March until later in May 2022," he said.
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