Traffic Engineering Extended

Based on the information released by toll road operator Jasa Marga, more than half the estimated 1.6 million vehicles had yet to return to Greater Jakarta as of Thursday at 8 a.m.

KOMPAS/P RADITYA MAHENDRA YASA

Vehicles cross the one-way open road to Cikampek at the Kalikangkung Toll Gate, Semarang City, Central Java, Thursday (27/4/2023). The one-way enforcement is implemented on the toll road from Kalikangkung to Cikampek to anticipate traffic congestion when returning travelers.

JAKARTA, KOMPAS — The flow of travelers returning from Idul Fitri holiday is expected to continue over the next five days with 892,000, around 56 percent of the estimated 1.6 million, vehicles having yet to make their way back to Greater Jakarta as of Thursday (27/4/2023) 8 a.m. The implementation of traffic engineering through one-way and contraflow traffic systems has also been extended on the trans-Java toll road.

"We are monitoring the movement of travelers, especially in the last five days. A surge [in the number of travelers] is estimated to occur during the second wave of backflow on Sunday (30/4/2023) and Monday (1/5/2023)," Transportation Minister Budi Karya Sumadi said while inspecting traffic from the Cikampek toll gate at Kilometer 70 in Karawang, West Java, on Thursday (27/4/2023).