REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, BANDAR LAMPUNG -- Some 30 percent of Eid travelers have returned from Sumatra to Java until three days after Eid or Lebaran (D+3), according to state-owned inland waterway transportation service (PT ASDP).
During the period between D+1 and D+3, 196,403 Eid travelers had returned from Sumatra to Java.
Before Lebaran, the number of Eid travelers who left Java for Sumatra to celebrate Lebaran in their hometowns had reached 647,800.
The Merak Port of Java and Bakauheni Port of Sumatra witnessed an influx of travelers during the seven-day period before the D-Day, PT ASDP for Bakauheni noted in press statement on Tuesday.
A total of 17,910 two-wheel vehicles and 21,224 four-wheel cars have returned to Jakarta until Monday, or D+3.
The total number of two- and four-wheel vehicles that were ferried through the ports before Lebaran was respectively recorded at 65,356 and 64,839 units.
According to PT ASDP, 455,397 Eid travelers had not yet returned to Jakarta from Sumatra until Tuesday.
In the meantime, the flow of Eid travelers on the Sumatran highway on Tuesday, or D+4, was still high.
It is forecast that the peak of the return flow of Eid travelers at Bakauheni ferry port would occur on Tuesday, or D+4.
Before Lebaran, the peak flow of homebound Eid travelers took place on Wednesday, July 15, or D-2, when 127,389 travelers were ferried from Merak Port to Bakauheni Port.
On Monday, thousands of Idul Fitri or Lebaran holidaymakers from Sumatra Island made their way to Bakauheni Port in Lampung to travel back to Java Island.
Operations Manager of the Bakauheni branch of PT ASDP Heru Purwanto remarked that since Sunday until Monday morning, the returning holidaymakers continued to pour into Bakauheni Port to be transported to Merak Port in Banten.
"The people in Sumatra arrived at Bakauheni Port in buses, private cars, and motorbikes. After being transported to Merak port, they will then travel to their respective workplaces in Java," Heru said.
He revealed that between Sunday and Monday morning, thousands of motorcycles, private cars, buses, and trucks had been transported from Bakauheni to Merak.
"However, thousands more are still expected to arrive at Bakauheni Port in the next few days," he noted, adding that during the Lebaran mass exodus, a total of 381,845 travelers from Sumatra have crossed Sunda Strait to Java for Eid through Bakauheni Port.
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