Vice President Ensures Smoothness And Safety Of Christmas-New Year Holidays

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JAKARTA - Vice President Ma'ruf Amin hopes that public security and order in traffic in the April 2023 Eid homecoming season can be achieved again during the Christmas and New Year's momentum this time.

"It becomes the routine work of the government every year and in Lebaran the order began to be felt last year, yes, it is safe, and we hope this year too," said Ma'ruf Amin as quoted by ANTARA, Monday, December 18.

The vice president said the government had prepared a community service plan to face the momentum of the Christmas and New Year 2024 holidays.

"But in general, we already have concrete steps to overcome various congestions, security," he said.

Vice President Ma'ruf hopes that the Handoyo bus accident on the Cipali Toll Road, Purwakarta, West Java, Saturday (16/12), which resulted in 12 passengers dying not repeated.

"So yesterday what happened was certainly very special, the problem was where there was negligence," he said.

The government predicts that the number of travelers during the momentum of the 2023 Christmas and 2024 new year holidays will increase by 43 percent compared to last year.

Minister of Transportation (Menhub) Budi Karya Sumadi estimates that there will be 107 million people going home at the end of this year with the peak homecoming situation and backflow on two days before or after the holidays.

The government has mapped a number of problems that have the potential to arise during the Christmas and New Year homecoming, based on evaluations from the previous year, such as congestion.

Such as vehicle queues at the Ketapang Banyuwangi ferry port, toll road congestion nodes around rest areas, tourist attractions, to appeals not to use motorbikes.