Results Of The Ministry Of Transportation Survey: 38 Percent Of Respondents Don't Have A Holiday When Christmasy Because They Don't Have Money

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JAKARTA - The Ministry of Transportation (Kemenhub) through the Transportation Policy Agency (Bakertrans) conducted a survey of 30,606 people.

From the results of the survey, 38.4 percent of respondents did not travel during the 2022 Christmas and 2023 New Year (Nataru) holidays because they did not have money.

Head of the Transportation Policy Agency (Bakertrans) of the Ministry of Transportation, I Gede Pasek Suardika, said as many as 37.5 percent of respondents said they would travel with the aim of taking advantage of the time during the Nataru holiday.

While the other 38.4 percent chose not to travel because they did not have money.

Gede said as many as 20 percent of respondents said they would not travel during the Nataru holiday because they were still afraid of COVID-19 and another 22 percent said they would not travel because they did not want to go anywhere.

There are five provinces that are the highest destination ahead of the Nataru holiday, including Central Java 19.7 percent or 8.7 million people; East Java 17.5 percent or 7.7 million people.

Then, West Java 14.6 percent or as many as 6.5 million people; Jabodetabek 10.5 percent or 4.7 million people and Yogyakarta 8.2 percent or 3.6 million people.

As for surevei, this is carried out in two stages regarding the 2022 Christmas and 2023 New Year holidays. The first stage is on 5 to 26 September 2022 and the second stage is on 17 to 30 November 2022.

"The most influential factor for traveling is the economic or financial factors of the family supporting COVID-19, easing and having collective leave," he said at a press conference, Wednesday, December 14.

Based on the survey, said Gede, as many as 35.4 million people will travel out of town during Nataru. Gede said the flow of homecoming during the period D-7 Christmas until Christmas Day was 19.9 million people traveling.

"The peak occurred on December 23, 2022, as many as 5.2 million people and December 24 as many as 4.5 million people," he said.

Gede said the second period occurred on D-6 before the New Year until the D Day of the New Year 2023, where it is predicted that as many as 15.5 million people will travel outside the city.

"The peak occurred on December 30, 2022, as many as 4.2 million people and December 31, 2022, as many as 3.6 million people," he said.