The passengers of the West Lombok-Padangbai Bali Sheet crossing ship were advised to go home early to avoid the operational closure of Padangbai Port during the Nyepi Day celebration on March 29, 2025.
"For the Lembar-Padangbai crossing, because March 29th, Nyepi Day in Bali is temporarily closed. Avoiding that, we ask the homecomingers to leave early," said Head of the NTB Transportation Service Lalu Moh Faozal in Mataram, Wednesday, March 12, confiscated by Antara.
He said that during the celebration of Nyepi Day, Hindus in Bali, the Lembar-Padangbai crossing was closed for 24 hours, starting at 06.00 WITA until it reopened at 06.00 WITA.
"Because there is a port closure, we encourage people who want to go home through Lembar Harbor to Padangbai Bali as well as to go to Lombok to leave faster, because the next day it has entered Eid al-Fitr," he said.
As for the Gili Mas and Lembar Port routes to Tanjung Perak, Jangkaran Port, Tanjung Wangi to East Java or vice versa, they will continue to operate as usual, so there are no problems.
Faozal added that in order to welcome the flow of homecoming, his party had started to check the feasibility of vehicles or ramp checks both on land, sea, and air transportation modes.
"Starting yesterday, we have ramp checks on ships serving the Lembar Lombok Barat-Padangbai Bali route, Gili Mas-Tanjung Perak Port, Jangkaer Port, Tanjung Wangi we have checked," he said.
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In addition to ships across Lembar Harbor and Gili Mas Port, inspection of the ship's feasibility was also carried out at the crossing of the East Lombok Kayangan Port-Poto Tano Port, West Sumbawa Regency.
"For the Lembar-Padangbai Port crossing, we have prepared 24 ships, while the Kayangan-Poto Tano Port has 26 ships out of 28, because 2 ships enter the dock," he said.
Meanwhile, land transportation, especially AKAP and AKDP buses, were also checked for vehicles early. For AKAP and AKDP, the number reached 216 vehicles.
"For airlines, checks are carried out every day and they are ready. Indeed, from the existing reports, there has been no increase in passengers and we have not received the number of ticket orders until Lebaran," he said.
According to Faozal, in preparation for this year's Eid transportation, his party has held a meeting with all parties related to transportation, both air, sea, and land.
"We have held this meeting to prepare for Eid transportation, including an estimated increase in the need to use transportation, because the number of holidays has also been extended for this year," he said.
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