Cabaran mudik di sini

Salam,

Sila baca petikan akhbar Jakarta Post dibawah... Ini adalah realiti normal, cabaran mudik di sini. Beratus orang akan mati... sebab kecelakaan, kelalaian dan tak kurang juga perampokan di sepanjang jalan pulang ke desa.... Sampai polisi terpaksa meletakkan unit penembak jitu mereka, di beberapa titik rawan (terutamanya di jalur yg sunyi). 

Pagi ni aku tengok berita, orang Jakarta dan start mudik, ada satu keluarga yg mudik diwawancara... nak mudik ke Tegal, Jawa Timur dari Jakarta... naik motor, ada 3 orang (laki, bini, anak kecik dok tengah) plus barang2.. perjalanan mengambil masa hampir sehari suntuk... 20 jam... Ada juga kes, anak kecik yg meninggal, gara2 perjalanan terlalu jauh, naik motor... mak bapak dia tak sedar.. bila dah sampai destinasi.. anak dipelukan dah mati.. mungkin sebab perjalanan yg terlalu jauh.. naik motor.

Untuk mengurangkan kecelakaan, pemerintah dgn beberapa syarikat swasta mengadakan kempen mudik bersama...  

Jadi bersyukurla kita, sebab masih boleh mudik ke kampung halaman masing2.. dgn keadaan lebih selamat dan selesa...

Berhati2 di jalanraya dan banyakkan bersabar kalau jalan jem...

http://stephenlangitan.wordpress.com/2008/09/12/mudik-lebaranmudik-bareng-naik-motor/#more-1212

Hundreds died in traffic during mudik

The Jakarta Post ,  Jakarta   |  Mon, 09/08/2008 1:59 PM  |  National

Thousands vehicles were fined and hundreds of travelers were killed in traffic during the Idul Fitri homecoming season last year, the National Police said.

Homecoming, also known as mudik, has become a tradition for many Indonesian Muslims ahead of Idul Fitri, which marks the end of the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan. This year, the Idul Fitri holidays are expected to fall on October 1 and 2

"There were 789 people who died on the road last year, in incoming and outgoing traffic," the National Police Traffic Director Yudi Sushariyanto told the House of Representative's Commission V on Monday.

According to Yudi, there will be more travelers traveling by motorcycle this year than last year.

"We are expecting about 2.5 million motorcycles this year, an 18 percent increase from last year's," Yudi said, as quoted by Kompas.

He added that the increase would render more attention being paid on motorcycle travelers.

"Previously we escorted travelers from Jakarta to Semarang, but now we've received request for a convoy all the way to Surabaya (East Java) and also the route back to Jakarta," Yudi said. (amr)