inp.polri.go.id - Jakarta. The Transportation Ministry will begin their monitoring on 2024 Christmas and 2025 New Year Eve on December 18th to January 5th, 2025.

“We will begin the monitoring from the integrated post for 19 days from December 18th to January 5th, 2025,” says Minister Dudy Purwagandhi.

Dudy says the date was referring to the school holiday season which will begin on December 18th, joint leave for Christmas and New Year on December 25 and December 26, 2024, and January 4-5, 2025 of New Year's holiday week.

The Minister of Transportation said that nationally, there are two peaks in the preference for departure days, namely on Christmas Holidays on December 24th, 2024 and on New Year's Holidays on December 31st, 2024. However, starting from December 20th, 2024, there has been an increase in mobility.

Meanwhile, nationally, the preference for return days is estimated to occur on January 1st, 2025 and January 2nd, 2025. However, until January 5th, 2025, they predict that there would still be a return flow.

The prediction of the main choice of using private vehicles is 53.78 percent or around 59.52 million vehicles. Meanwhile, the prediction of the choice to use public transportation based on corrected data calculations is buses for 6.54 million people, trains for 3.44 million people, planes for 4.14 million people, ferry boats for 3.40 million people, and ships for 2.38 million people.

For information, based on the results of the survey of the potential for national movement for Christmas 2024 and New Year 2025 by the Ministry of Transportation, the potential for community movement reached 110.67 million people.

This potential movement covers all provinces in Indonesia spread over 22 days from December 18th, 2024 to January 8th, 2025.

The potential for movement between provinces reached 55.86 million people and the potential for movement within a province reached 54.81 million people.

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