Traffic Police Chief Reveals Vehicle Volume Reaches 270,000 Until Thursday Morning

Jakarta (ANTARA) - The Head of the Indonesian National Police Traffic Corps (Kakorlantas), Inspector General of Police Agus Suryonugroho, revealed that the vehicle volume during the Eid al-Fitr homecoming period reached 270,000 vehicles by Thursday morning.

“From the data, the peak flow from 18 March (Wednesday) until this morning (Thursday) was 270,000,” he said at the Command Centre Post at KM 29 of the Cikampek Toll Road, West Java, on Thursday.

This figure, he added, increased by around 4.26 per cent compared to the same period last year, which recorded 258,000 vehicles.

Therefore, the Traffic Corps has implemented contraflow traffic engineering starting from KM 36.

“Earlier, we carried out contraflow on one lane up to 47. After there was still more traffic generation, from 47 we extended it to 48, that’s two lanes. From 48, we created another contraflow on lane three up to 70. Up to 70, of course, towards Trans Java, alhamdulillah, it’s smooth because we have implemented the national one-way system,” he said.

In that process, he continued, the Sheikh Mohamed Bin Zayed (MBZ) elevated toll road was temporarily closed for approximately 1.5 hours to support the contraflow implementation.

Currently, the MBZ toll road has been reopened and traffic is flowing smoothly.

Furthermore, the two-star police general stated that the traffic accident rate has been recorded to have decreased significantly by 2.8 per cent up to the seventh day of Operation Ketupat 2026 compared to the seventh day of Operation Ketupat 2025.

Meanwhile, the fatality rate of deaths has dropped significantly by up to 40 per cent compared to the same period last year.

“Hopefully, until the end of Operation Ketupat, we can maintain this,” he said.

“And we hope that fellow homecoming travellers must be careful and patient. The peak flow has passed, just a few per cent left for us to secure,” he added.