Nataru Holidays, Lalin Engineering Applied on Ciwidey and Bandung Canning Lines

Illustration - Satlantas officers are arranging traffic flow to ensure the smooth flow of travel on the tourist route. ANTARA/Ilham Nugraha

Bandung - The Bandung City Police (Polresta) has prepared traffic engineering (lalin) to anticipate potential congestion on the Ciwidey and Pangalengan tourist routes during Christmas 2025 and New Year 2026 (Nataru).

Head of the Bandung Police Traffic Police, Kompol Sigit Suhartanto, said traffic engineering would be implemented on a situational basis if there was a congestion of vehicle traffic to the tourist area.

"We anticipate that if there is congestion at the tourist location, we will carry out traffic engineering, both towards Pangalengan and Ciwidey, including at the Soroja Toll Gate, according to the conditions on the ground," he said in Bandung, West Java, Wednesday. quoted by Antara.

He explained that one form of traffic engineering that was prepared was the implementation of contraflow or the diversion of a portion of the lane from the opposite direction to be used temporarily to disperse the density of the lane to the tourist area.

According to him, the implementation of the engineering will be carried out on a situational basis with the support of personnel in the field, including optimizing the urai team to handle density at points prone to congestion.

"The number of personnel remains the same since the initial preparation of Operation Nataru. There is no addition, but we will optimize the urai team to anticipate traffic density," he explained.

He also said that the peak of the flow density on the southern route itself is predicted to occur this weekend or on December 27 and 28, 2025, so the public is asked to arrange their travel schedule properly.

In addition, he also asked the public to ensure the physical condition and suitability of vehicles before traveling and using vehicles according to their provisions, including not transporting passengers using open-top vehicles because it is dangerous.