Backflow Is Predicted To Explode Today, The Ministry Of Transportation Urges Travelers To Delay Their Return

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JAKARTA - The Ministry of Transportation (Kemenhub) advises travelers who have not returned to postpone their return after today. The reason is, the Ministry of Transportation predicts that backflow will explode on the last day of the Idul Fitri holiday, Sunday, May 8.

"In order to avoid congestion and make travel more comfortable, we urge the public to postpone their return after May 8, 2022," said Ministry of Transportation spokeswoman Adita Irawati in a written statement, Sunday, May 8. As of Saturday, May 7, the Ministry of Transportation noted that around 60 percent of vehicle users, both crossing from Sumatra to Java and via the Semarang toll road to Jakarta, had not returned.

Meanwhile, based on data from PT ASDP Indonesia Ferry, the return flow of crossings from Sumatra to Java continues to increase on Friday and Saturday this week or D+2 and D+3 Lebaran. It was recorded that since Tuesday, May 3 or D+3 Eid al-Fitr, there have been 364,673 people or 40.78 percent of travelers who have returned to Java via Bakauheni Port. Then, data from May 6, 2022 at 08.00 WIB to May 7 2022 at 08.00 WIB, a total of 142,377 people have crossed from Bakauheni to Merak, followed by two-wheeled vehicles as many as 11,413 units, four-wheeled vehicles as many as 18,863 units, buses as many as 567 units and trucks as many as 695 units, with a total production of all vehicles on H+3 as many as 31,538 units.

Meanwhile, based on data from Jasa Marga, as many as 815,612 vehicles returned to the Jabotabek area on the second day of Eid until D+2 or from Tuesday to Friday, 3-6 May 2022.

This figure is the cumulative number of traffic flows from the four Barrier/Main Toll Gates (GT), namely the Cikupa GT (direction to Merak), GT Ciawi (direction to Puncak), and GT Cikampek Utama and GT Kalihurip Utama (direction to Trans Java and Bandung). show improvement.

The total volume of traffic returning to the Jabotabek area increased by 51.1 percent compared to normal traffic for the November 2021 period with a total of 539,697 vehicles.

In addition, for the distribution of traffic entering Jabotabek from three directions, the majority were 467,178 vehicles (57.28 percent) from the East (Trans Java and Bandung), 181,399 vehicles (22.24 percent) from the West (Merak), and 167,035. vehicles (20.48 percent) from the South (Peak).

Jasa Marga also predicts that today, Sunday, May 8, will be the peak of the return flow. The number of vehicles returning to Jabotabek today is estimated at 269,444 vehicles, up 53.6 percent from normal traffic for the November 2021 period.

Seeing that there are still more than half of the total vehicles going home via toll roads that have not returned, Jasa Marga urges road users to re-arrange their travel times.

On the other hand, based on provisional data compiled from the Integrated Lebaran Transport Command Post in 2022, the number of public transport passenger movements during the return period starts from Wednesday, May 4, or D+1 to Friday, May 6, or D+3, the trend continues. Monitoring of the movement of homecoming passengers this year is carried out at 111 bus terminals, 16 ferry ports, 50 airports, 110 sea ports, and 13 Daop/Divre.

"The movement of public transport passengers in all modes on D+3 yesterday was recorded at 927,244 passengers. This number continues to increase when compared to D+2 of 919,404 passengers and D+1 of 814,900 passengers," said Adita Irawati.