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Govt claims 'mudik' 2024 traffic management a success
While transportation authorities have hailed the 'mudik' (exodus) 2024 traffic management policies a success, they are already planning adjustments for Idul Fitri 2025 based on lessons learned this year.
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Vehicles stand in bumper-to-bumper traffic on April 15, 2024 in the Jakarta-bound lanes of the Jakarta-Cikampek Toll Road in Karawang, West Java. Police imposed a counterflow system on the toll road for two lanes between Kilometer Marker (KM) 72 and KM 66 and one lane from KM 47 to 36 to manage ‘mudik’ (exodus) return traffic during Idul Fitri this year. (Antara/Akbar Nugroho Gumay)
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raffic authorities have claimed success in managing the flow of mudik (exodus) return travel during this year’s Idul Fitri holiday season, estimated to be the largest so far but with fewer accidents and casualties compared to Idul Fitri 2023.
The Transportation Ministry had projected that around 193.6 million Indonesians, or nearly three-quarters of the population, would be traveling over the annual mudik tradition for Idul Fitri 2024. The figure marked an increase of 56 percent from the number of travelers during last year’s holiday.
Citing an early interministerial evaluation, Coordinating Human Development and Culture Minister Muhadjir Effendy said the National Police and the Indonesian Military (TNI) had managed mudik traffic better this year compared to last year.
“We saw fewer accidents and traffic-related injuries and deaths during this [year’s] mudik season,” Muhadjir said on Wednesday.
The National Police’s Integrated Road Safety Management System (IRSMS) recorded 2,985 traffic accidents throughout the 2024 mudik travel season, down 12 percent from the 3,412 incidents the system recorded last year.
The number of road accident fatalities recorded over the major holiday this year decreased 17 percent to 429, from 519 deaths in 2023.
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