A massive flow of people came through Bali during the Lebaran holiday this year, marking the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.
While Muslims from around the country flocked to their hometowns for the big holiday, throngs of non-Muslim tourists who weren’t celebrating but had the holiday time off, poured into Hindu-dominated Bali.
Based on data collected from Bali’s Ngurah Rai International Airport, 1.2 million people traveled through the airport for the holiday period that the government mandated time off for from June 23 to June 30.
That’s a lot of people for an island with a total population of something around four million.
“During this Lebaran holiday, we served about 1.2 million passengers,” Ngurah Rai Airport spokesman Yanus Suprayogi told Detik on Tuesday.
Extra flights were added to the schedule for the holiday period, bumped up by 97 percent, local media reported.
It turns out that the traffic flow through Bali was a spike up from Lebaran last year.
“It increased by 12 percent compared to Lebaran 2016,” Suprayogi said.
And these numbers aren’t even inclusive of the hundreds of thousands of people who traveled by sea to Java and other islands from Bali.
