Korlantas Forms Task Force To Unravel Congestion In The 2024 Eid Homecoming Flow

Kakorlantas Polri Inspector General Aan Suhanan / DOK Korlantas

JAKARTA - The Traffic Corps (Korlantas) of the National Police formed a task force (Satgas) to break congestion. This step was taken to deal with the flow of homecoming and back to Eid Al-Fitr 2024.

"We will form a traffic jam-resolved team, we will distribute 500 two-wheeled vehicles to support the traffic jam sub-task so that they can maximize, facilitate, guarantee public safety during homecoming," said Head of Traffic Police, Inspector General Aan Suhanan in his statement, Tuesday, March 26.

The Congestion Urai Task Force was formed due to the high potential for vehicle density. In addition, it is predicted that 193.6 million people will go home at the moment of Eid Al-Fitr 2024.

The formation of the task force is also a strategy to serve the community. Given that land routes are still the prima donna for travelers.

"Seeing last year's anev (analytics/evaluation), there were a lot of trouble spots that resulted in traffic jams and slowdowns, especially for drivers who stopped on the shoulder of the road or got disturbed," he said.

"This team will solve the problem later in each Regional Police, starting from Banten to East Java, we will form a traffic jam," continued Aan.

With the establishment of the Congestion Urai Task Force, it is hoped that it can help smooth the flow of traffic or motorists who experience disturbances during the back and forth flow.

"Later on, the way to act will be patrolling according to the vulnerable hours, then if there are reports from the Command Center of disturbances, traffic jams, this team will go down to unravel congestion," said Aan.

Korlantas Polri will implement contraflow, one way, and even traffic engineering.

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.