Gas Stations In Papua And Maluku Operate Longer During Christmas 2022 And New Year 2023

PAPUA - Executive General Manager of Pertamina Patra Niaga Regional Papua-Maluku I Ketut Permadi Aryakuumara estimates that traffic flow in Papua and Maluku will increase during the 2022 Christmas and 2023 New Year holidays.

"We estimate that the potential movement of the people during the Christmas and New Year 2023 holidays will be crowded because the situation is now starting to improve in the Papua-Maluku region," he said in Jayapura, Papua, Saturday, December 18, as reported by Antara.

Anticipating it, Ketut said PT Pertamina Regional Papua-Maluku alerted gas stations with longer operating hours during the Christmas 2022 and New Year 2023 periods.

In addition, PT Pertamina Regional Papua-Maluku formed a Christmas and New Year's Task Force Team to control and monitor the smooth distribution of fuel and LPG until January 8, 2023.

This task force team also involves the Department of Energy and Mineral Resources, the Department of Transportation, the Office of Cooperatives and MSMEs of Manpower, KSOP, Police, TNI and PT Telkom Indonesia.

According to Ketut, people can take advantage of various modes of transportation to visit their families or fill the holidays. "So we predict that energy consumption will increase due to community mobility ahead and after the Christmas and New Year celebrations in Papua-Maluku," he said.