Jakarta, June 11 -- Deputy Minister of Transportation, Suntana, said that the COVID-19 pandemic led to the adoption of new travel habits by the public, which have had a positive impact on preventing virus transmission across national transportation modes.

Suntana made the statement in response to questions from journalists about how the country's transportation services are contributing to ongoing efforts to curb the spread of COVID-19.

"We have experience; we learned from our experience managing COVID-19, and the public has developed (new) behavioral patterns," he said on the sidelines of the International Conference on Infrastructure (ICI) 2025 in Jakarta on Wednesday.

Before the pandemic, many Indonesians were relatively unaware of ...