Minister Of Transportation Budi Karya Predicts Peak Lebaran Homecoming Flow To Occur On April 19-21

The meeting of Commission V DPR RI with Minister of Transportation Budi Karya (Photo: Nailin In Saroh/VOI)

JAKARTA - Minister of Transportation (Menhub) Budi Karya Sumadi, said that the peak of the Lebaran homecoming flow is predicted to occur from 19 to 21 April 2023. This was said by Budi when reporting the 2023 Eid Transport Operation plan in a working meeting with Commission V DPR RI, Tuesday, April 4. Initially, Budi said, this year's Eid homecoming will increase because PPKM has been abolished. His party predicts that almost half of the total population of Indonesia will go home ahead of Eid al-Fitr. "We report that this homecoming will be significant, because PPKM has ended, the economy has increased constant, there is no ban on going home, there are collective leave has been changed to 19 to 25 (April)," said Budi. "We have anticipated that even from one month earlier we even surveyed that 45.8 percent or 143 million of Indonesia's population would move during Eid," he continued. Furthermore, Budi revealed, the government has agreed that the Eid leave will be moved forward from the original date from April 21 to 26, 2023 to April 19 to 25, 2023. So it is predicted that the peak of homecoming will last for three days from 19 to 21 April 2023. The peak of the homecoming flow was previously calculated only two days H-2 and H-1 or 20 and 21 April.

"Yesterday in the meeting (limited meeting) it was approved by the President, starting (the peak of homecoming, ed) from 19, 20, 21," explained Budi. As for the backflow, Budi predicts it will occur on April 24-25, 2023. "The peak of the first period of backflow is expected to occur on April 24-25, 2023 and the peak of the second period of backflow is expected to occur on April 30 to May 1, 2023," said Budi.