"With the government's WFA arrangement, we predict that the homecoming flow will start earlier," Traffic Corps Chief Inspector General Agus Suryo Nugroho remarked during a meeting on preparations for the Operation Ketupat 2025 in Jakarta on Friday (March 14).
As cited in a statement here on Saturday, Nugroho expressed confidence that the WFA policy, which will be applied to civil servants on March 24-27, would encourage homecoming travelers to begin their trips earlier, ultimately reducing traffic density.
In this regard, he announced that the police had decided to commence Operation Ketupat 2025 earlier in Java, Lampung, and Bali from March 23 to April 8.
Nugroho noted that this annual traffic control operation in other parts of the country would be initiated on March 26, the original launch date.
However, he suggested that the Traffic Corps had not ruled out the possibility that some people may still join the homecoming exodus within the three days leading up to Eid, as observed in previous years.
Earlier, the government announced its decision to allow for flexible working arrangements for civil servants and bring forward the start of the school holiday period to ease traffic flow during the homecoming and reverse flows.
In a press conference after a ministerial meeting on preparations for the 2025 Eid holiday period, Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture Pratikno remarked that this decision had been put forward in a circular letter by the State Apparatus and Bureaucratic Reform Ministry.
"Flexible working arrangements will be applicable from March 24 to 27," he noted in Jakarta on March 5.
The minister remarked that school holidays would begin on March 21, as opposed to the initial date of March 24, and end on April 8.
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