JAKARTA (THE JAKARTA POST/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - Indonesia's Coordinating Maritime Affairs and Investment Minister Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan said that the government decided to allow an Idul Fitri exodus during the Covid-19 pandemic, despite also appealing to the public not to do it, for economic reasons.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
JAKARTA - Indonesia's Coordinating Maritime Affairs and Investment Minister Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan said that the government decided to allow an Idul Fitri exodus during the Covid-19 pandemic, despite also appealing to the public not to do it, for economic reasons.
Indonesians, nearly 90 per cent of whom are Muslim, celebrate the end of the fasting month of Ramadan, or the Hari Raya Idul Fitri festival, with a feast and new clothes, usually returning to their home villages or towns. Ramadan this year falls over April and May. "Even if we choose to prohibit people from mudik, they'd do it anyway. Therefore we decided to tell them instead that mudik will bring the disease to their families so it's better not to do it," he added.
The decision was made despite calls from public health experts and regional heads for the government to impose a lockdown for"red zone" areas, such as Jakarta, to prevent the disease from spreading farther across the island of Java.
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