Indonesian National Police Officially Closes Operation Ketupat 2026

Semarang (ANTARA) - The Indonesian National Police (Polri) has officially closed Operation Ketupat 2026, the security operation for the Eid al-Fitr homecoming period, which lasted 13 days from Friday (13/3) to Wednesday (25/3). “Tonight (Wednesday (25/3)) at 24:00 WIB, based on the directive of the National Police Chief General Pol. Listyo Sigit Prabowo, Operation Ketupat has been closed,” said the Head of the Traffic Corps (Kakorlantas) of Polri, Inspector General of Police Agus Suryonugroho, in Semarang, Central Java, in the early hours of Thursday. After the end of Operation Ketupat 2026, said Inspector General Agus, Polri will carry out intensified routine activities (KRYD). Thus, personnel will still be in the field to anticipate security and public order situations (harkamtibmas), including the second peak return flow scheduled for 28-29 March 2026. The two-star police general stated that during Operation Ketupat 2026, the vehicle volume during the homecoming peak was recorded as the highest in history, at 270,315 vehicles. “Compared to last year 2025, there was an increase of 4.62 percent. Last year it was 258,512 vehicles,” he said. “Traffic engineering management strategies, including parameters for national one-way and even local one-way in segments of stage one or precision local one-way, were able to break up the flow so that we could manage it well; the homecoming flow has been passed,” he added. In addition, he mentioned that during the implementation of Operation Ketupat, the fatality rate of traffic accident victims decreased by 30.89 percent and the number of accidents fell by 5.75 percent compared to 2025. He also expressed appreciation to the public for their compliance in traffic, which helped suppress accident cases.