Indonesia’s Stricter Covid Restrictions during Year-End Holidays Scrapped

The government will also ban all celebrations in conjunction with the New Year held in public places such as hotels, shopping centers, malls, tourist attractions, and other public places.
Meanwhile, shopping centers, restaurants, cinemas, and tourist attractions are allowed to operate at 75 percent capacity and are required to use the Covid-19 contact tracing app PeduliLindungi.

“Any social and cultural events must limit the attendance to 50 people and use the Covid-19 contact tracing app PeduliLindungi.”

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Luhut called on the public to remain vigilant over the Omicron Covid-19 variant as it had been detected in some countries.

Furthermore, he said, the handling of the pandemic in Indonesia showed significant improvements. The daily number of confirmed cases stood below 400 cases. Based on data issued on December 4, only 12 regencies/cities or 9.4 percent of the total areas in Java and Bali are in level 3 of PPKM.

Sharing a similar sentiment, Home Affairs Minister Tito Karnavian said the transmission rate of Covid-19 is relatively low. “We can see the number of confirmed cases is relatively low compared to tens of thousands previously,” said Tito.

Quoting a survey done by the Ministry of Health, Tito said that the antibodies of the people are fairly high and could lead to herd community in some areas.

He said the initial plan to implement level 3 of PPKM across Indonesia was considered too strict some provinces show some improvement in handling the pandemic.

(Writers: Ade Miranti Karunia, Ardito Ramadhan | Editors: Erlangga Djumena, Icha Rastika)

Sources: https://money.kompas.com/read/2021/12/07/050100526/pemerintah-tak-jadi-terapkan-ppkm-level-3-serentak-saat-nataru.

https://nasional.kompas.com/read/2021/12/07/14494001/ppkm-level-3-se-indonesia-batal-mendagri-hanya-ganti-judulnya?page=1.