Tens Of Millions Of Vehicles Will Pass In Java During Lebaran, National Police Chief Sigit Reminds Prokes And Vaccinations

National Police Chief General Listyo Sigit Prabowo at the Ketupat Operation troop rally at Monas/PHOTO: Police Public Relations Division

JAKARTA - The National Police Chief, General Listyo Sigit Prabowo, said that the enthusiasm of the community to be allowed to go home during Lebaran 2022 was very high. In fact, it is predicted that tens of millions of vehicles will pass, either through toll roads or arteries in the Java region. "The survey results show that 85 million people in Indonesia will go home, in Java there are approximately 23 million cars and 17 million motorcycles going home," said Listyo in the Banteng Square area, Jakarta, Monday, April 25. The high enthusiasm of the community is because two years earlier the government issued a policy of prohibiting going home. The reason is because it is still during the COVID-19 pandemic. Thus, the National Police, said Listyo, will make various efforts so that people's trips to their hometowns run smoothly. One of them, providing free homecoming. "This free homecoming with fellow students later on 27, 28, 29 can be used for colleagues, provided 400 buses," said Listyo. Then, PT Kereta Api Indonesia (KAI) has also provided an additional capacity of 20 thousand seats. Not to forget, this four-star general also appealed to the public to maintain health protocols (prokes) during the trip. Especially, undergoing phase three or booster vaccines to have a stronger immune system to deal with COVID-19. "We remind people to take care of the health procedures and we opened the vaccine booth yesterday. We also gave booster vaccines, at Pospam and Posyan for the community to carry out boosters, so we are sure that the people who go home and return are all in a state of high immunity and we can control the rate of COVID-19 take care," said Listyo.