Indonesia’s Minister of Transportation, Budi Karya Sumadi, has given numbers estimating the lost travel business that the Indonesian travel industry must forgo because of the travel ban over the Lebaran Holidays for homecoming travel. Sumadi says the 81 million Indonesians who would have traveled domestically during the traditional peak travel period have now been told to stay home by their government.
Government Suspends Mudik Travel to Reduce COVID Infections.
Quoted by
NusaBali.com, Sumadi, speaking from the President’s office on Wednesday, 07 April 2021, said: “We advise that a survey conducted by the Ministry of Transportation using a wide range and number of respondents shows that without the travel prohibition for Lebaran, 33% of the Indonesian public would have undertaken some sort of mudik travel.”