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Brebes Exit or East Brebes Exit also known as Brexit, is one of the most famous road junctions in Indonesia, infamous for deaths and multi-thousand vehicle traffic jams that occurred after opening the junction prior to the 2016 'mudik' or homecoming period, at the end of the month of Ramadan and at the beginning of the following month of Syawal, as most of the population of Jakarta leaves the city to return to their home village for the Muslim festival of Lebaran.

Brexit is located in Central Java on the 57.5km Pejagan - Pemalang toll road, a continuation of the 35km Kanci - Pejagan toll road, itself a continuation of the 26km Paliaman - Kanci toll road, in turn continuing from the 116km Cikopo - Paliaman toll road, which continues from the 73km Jakarta - Cikampek toll road. Construction of the Pejagan - Pemalang toll road began in 2014, and prior to 2016 mudik the first of two sections were opened, Pejagan to Brebes West, and Brebes West to Brebes Timur.

There are in fact two Brebes exits, Brebes Timur (East Brebes) toll booth at km268 (from Jakarta), and Brebes Barat (West Brebes) toll booth at km263, however as currently Brebes Timur is the end of the trans-Javanese toll road, it creates a massive tailback as vehicles exit the highway for onward travel.

During Lebaran 2016, tailbacks at Brexit reached 16 km.^[1] Thirteen people died on a single day.^[2]

The deaths and delays at Brexit are primarily caused by payment delays as users pay the tolls, which in 2015 totalled 146,500rp for the journey from Jakarta to Brexit.^[3]

As a result of numerous vehicles running out of fuel at Brexit contributing further to delays and congestion, enterprising vendors sold fuel for upwards, of IDR50,000/litre, more than six times the official price. As a result, at 2017 mudik season, Pertamina the state petroleum company announced that it would set up mobile kiosks, motorbikes with fuel cannisters and other facilities to provide fuel to stranded motorists.^[4]

By the end of 2017 the Indonesian government plans to eliminate cash tolls in favour of electronic smartcards, which will greatly reduce the time taken for a vehicle to pass through toll booths.^[5]

References

[1] ttps://nasional.kompas.com/read/2016/07/04/15261211/tol.brebes.timur.jadi.neraka.pemudik.ini.dia.penyebabnya.

[2] ttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3678467/Is-world-s-worst-traffic-jam-Fifteen-people-die-getting-caught-gridlock-Indonesian-junction-named-BREXIT.html

[3] ttps://beritatrans.com/2015/06/15/berikut-biaya-perjalanan-tol-mulai-jakarta-sampai-brebes/

[4] ttps://www.beritasatu.com/bisnis/438121-pertamina-pastikan-kelangkaan-bbm-brexit-2016-tak-terulang.html

[5] ttps://bisnis.tempo.co/read/news/2017/05/31/090880392/oktober-2017-semua-jalan-tol-gunakan-pembayaran-non-tunai

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	'''Brebes Exit''' or '''East Brebes Exit''' also known as '''Brexit''', is one of the most famous road junctions in Indonesia, infamous for deaths and multi-thousand vehicle traffic jams that occurred after opening the junction prior to the 2016 'mudik' or homecoming period, at the end of the month of [[Ramadan]] and at the beginning of the following month of [[Shawwal\|Syawal]], as most of the population of [[Jakarta]] leaves the city to return to their home village for the Muslim festival of [[Lebaran]].		'''Brebes Exit''' or '''East Brebes Exit''' also known as '''Brexit''', is one of the most famous road junctions in Indonesia, infamous for deaths and multi-thousand vehicle traffic jams that occurred after opening the junction prior to the 2016 'mudik' or homecoming period, at the end of the month of [[Ramadan]] and at the beginning of the following month of [[Shawwal\|Syawal]], as most of the population of [[Jakarta]] leaves the city to return to their home village for the Muslim festival of [[Lebaran]].