Head of Public Relations Division of the National Police, Inspector General Argo Yuwono, said that vehicle blocking was able to reduce the number of vehicles leaving Jakarta to West Java, Central Java and East Java.
"At the Cikampek Utama toll gate there are only 8,732 vehicles, the normal situation is 19,338 vehicles. The presence of insulation decreased by 53 percent, ”explained Argo in a written statement, Friday (7/5).
Meanwhile, there are 10,629 motorists heading to West Java through the Kaliurip Utam toll gate, down 46 percent from the normal situation, which could reach 19,827 vehicles per day.
The decline was not only for motorists heading to Java, but to Sumatra Island, as many as 12,044 vehicles were recorded leaving the Cikupa toll gate heading for Merak to cross to Sumatra.
"Normally 14,853 vehicles, down 19 percent," said Argo.
During the raids on the isolation of the homecoming ban, the police reversed 12,267 car drivers, 7,352 motorbikes, 2,148 passenger cars and 1,768 goods vehicles, so that the total on the first day of the isolation of 23,573 vehicles was turned around because they allegedly wanted to travel back and forth.
"There are 75 cases of illegal travel violations,"
In this activity of prohibiting homecoming, the National Police also conducted humanitarian operations by distributing masks 9,385 times and carrying out antigen swabs to riders as many as 1,645 times.
