Ministry of Transportation Considers Extension Of Travel Tightening Period After Homecoming

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JAKARTA - Today is the last day of tightening of travel after the homecoming period. The post-ban tightening period runs from May 18 to 24.

Ministry of Transportation Spokeswoman Adita Irawati said that it is considering extending the tightening of travel after the homecoming.

"Soon the tightening period is over. This is what we will also make sure if this period will continue will not be, if there is a tightening of what it will be like", Adita said in a coordination meeting of the Task Force on Handling COVID-19, aired Youtube Pusdalops BNPB on Sunday, May 23.

This is in anticipation of the backflow of homecoming that continues to increase during the post-homecoming tightening.

"Does this period of tightening need to be extended considering that the return of people returning to Jabodetabek is still not in accordance with the figures released".

Based on the records of the Ministry of Transportation until May 22, vehicles entering or returning to Jabodetabek after the Eid al-Fitr holiday are only 40 percent of vehicles that exit until May 14 or 1.9 million vehicles. This number, Adita said, is still moving.

"953 thousand vehicles are entering Jabodetabek via toll road and 912 thousand vehicles entering through national roads", said Adita.

On public transportation until May 15-22, there were 259,969 road transport passengers entering, 120,200 passengers of sea transportation, 702,732 air transport, 291,206 train transportation, and 592,364 crossings. The rest, private vehicles.

That is, said Adita, there will still be a backflow that occurs. "It could be that the control must also be as it exists now in anticipation of a spike in cases, especially in Jabodetabek", she said.

Following the plan or discourse of extension, Adita considers all stakeholders need to prepare a sealing post.

"Because once we talk on land transportation four-wheeled vehicles and two of course there are resources to mandatory check or random test", she said.

For information, the government divided three travel protocols in anticipation of travelers. The tightening period before the homecoming ban took effect from April 22 to May 5. The ban is from May 6 to 17. Tightening after the homecoming ban from May 18 to 24.

In the tightening protocol, both before and after the homecoming ban, travelers traveling by air, rail, sea, and sea crossings in the two weeks before and one week after the homecoming ban must show a certificate of negative test results rt-PCR or rapid test antigen whose samples are taken a maximum of 1x24 hours before departure.

If you wish to use GeNose, it is done shortly before departure. Then, travelers are required to fill e-HAC Indonesia.

Protocol on-road public transportation travelers will be conducted a random test of antigen rapid test or GeNose by COVID-19 Task Force of their respective regions.

Special routine travel with sea transportation mode for limited shipping in the area of one sub-district/province or urban agglomeration area (Jabodetabek) is not required to show a letter of negative test results.

In anticipation of the backflow, the government conducted random COVID-19 tests since May 15 for road trips using four-wheeled and two-wheeled vehicles heading to Jabodetabek, especially from Central Java, West Java, and East Java.

Also, there is a mandatory check from Sumatra that will enter Java using the crossing.