Reuters A truck driver smokes a cigarette while he is stuck in a traffic jam about 5 km (3 miles) from the port of Merak near Cilegon, Banten province March 25, 2011, as trucks line up to board the ferry to take them across to the island of Sumatra. Local police said the congestion was caused by insufficient ferries to bring them across to Sumatra, according to local media.
Although the Inland Waterway Transportation Service (ASDP) has operated 24 roll-on-roll-off ferry ships at Merak Port, thousands of trucks were still seen snaking down waiting for turns to cross to Sumatra, a company executive said.
"We have been operating 24 ferries," ASDP chief for Merak port La Mane said here on Sunday.
Mane said lines of waiting trucks had begun three days ago. The flow of traffic was still normal when participants of national sports jamboree were passing. "But now trucks line up again," he said.
The number of private cars and public buses ferried every day reached 300. "There are now 200 and we predict until the middle of tonight, the number of cars and trucks would have reached 300," Mane said.
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