April 8 Is Predicted To Be The Peak Of The 2024 Eid Al-Fitr Homecoming Flow

Batang-Semarang/DOK ANTARA Toll Road

JAKARTA - The Traffic Corps (Korlantas) of the National Police has prepared various things to deal with community shifting at the moment of Eid Al-Fitr 2024 homecoming. It is predicted that the peak of homecoming will occur on Monday, April 8.

"Meanwhile, the peak of the homecoming flow, we estimate starting from the flow of homecoming starting from the D-2 Monday, April 8," said Director of Law Enforcement or Dirgakkum Korlantas Polri Brigadier General Raden Slamet at the DPR building, Senayan, Jakarta, Thursday, March 21. However, a few days earlier, the shift from the community began to occur. The number is also predicted to be quite large

"Then (due to) 7, 6, 5 is an estimate that there will be many homecomings, on holidays," he said

Meanwhile, good currents are predicted to occur for two days, precisely on D+3 Lebaran. Therefore, people are asked to adjust the day of departure.

"Likewise with the backflow, the backflow may be D+3 from Sunday 14 April to the 16th," said Slamet.

Meanwhile, Korlantas Polri and the Ministry of Transportation (Kemenhub) predict 193.6 million people will go home for Lebaran 2024. Of the hundreds of millions of people, most are heading to Central Java.

"The first destination for travelers is Central Java, which is almost 61.6 million people," said Slamet.

Then, East Java became the second area to be the destination for travelers. It is predicted that 37 million people will go there.

Slamet said West Java was the next region with a prediction of 32 million. The Special Region of Yogyakarta with 11 million people and DKI Jakarta 6.4 million people.

To deal with vehicle density during the 2024 Eid Al-Fitr homecoming flow, Korlantas Polri implemented several traffic engineering, namely, contraflow, one way, and even.

For homecoming flow, contraflow engineering will be implemented from KM 36 of the Jakarta-Cikampek toll road to KM 72 of the Cikopo-Palimanan or Cipali toll road.

"(Applied) Friday 5 April at 14.00 WIB until Thursday 11 April at 24.00 WIB," wrote the Instagram account @korlantaspolri.ntmc quoted Friday, March 15.

The one way scheme will be implemented from KM 72 Cikopo-Palimanan or Cipali to KM 414 Semarang-Batang toll road.

For this scheme, its implementation at different times. On Friday, April 5 starts at 14.00 WIB until Sunday, April 7 at 24.00 WIB.

Then, it will be re-imposed on Monday, April 8 from 08.00 WIB to 24.00 WIB. Even on Tuesday, April 9 at the same time.

"It's odd-even from KM 0 toll roads in the city (Jakarta) to KM 414 of the Semarang-Batang toll road," he said.