The restrictions, which will remain in place until Jan. 25, follow a spike in the number of COVID-19 cases in Jakarta and aim to prevent health facilities from being overwhelmed with patients.

The administration allows shopping centers to open only until 7 p.m. Meanwhile, several public places and attractions are closed, including the Gelora Bung Karno sport complex, which has announced the closure of all facilities until Jan. 25.

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City-owned bus operator Transjakarta will limit its operations to the hours of 5 a.m. to 8 p.m. during the PSBB.

“We will also continue to limit the vehicles’ occupancy [to 50 percent of their capacity],” Transjakarta operational director Prasetia Budi said on Sunday.

Commuter line operator PT Kereta Commuter Indonesia (KCI) spokesperson Anne Purba was quoted as saying by tempo.co that the company would limit its operational hours to the period of 4 a.m. to 10 p.m. She added that the operator had implemented such a policy during the year-end holiday season.

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Governor Anies announced on Jan. 7 that the provincial administration would end a period of relaxed restrictions, referred to as the transitional PSBB, to reimpose stricter rules.

The announcement was made after Coordinating Economic Minister Airlangga Hartarto told regional leaders across Java and Bali to put in place stricter restrictions to prevent further COVID-19 transmission in the country.

According to the central government, regions required to impose stricter restrictions are those with fatality and active cases rates higher than the national average of 3 and 14 percent, respectively. Regions with hospital bed occupancy rates above 70 percent are also ordered to reimpose stern measures to prevent the emergence of new cases.

Apart from limiting the operating hours of public places and facilities, the restrictions also require restaurants and places of worship to limit their capacity, as well as ordering workplaces to have more people work from home. Private businesses and government agencies are allowed to have no more than 25 percent of their employees work in the office at the same time.

Dozens of cities across the country’s most populous island followed suit by reimposing their own PSBB, such as Tangerang and South Tangerang in Banten; Bogor, Depok, Bekasi, Bandung and Cimahi in West Java; Surakarta, Semarang and Banyumas in Central Java as well as Surabaya and Malang in East Java.

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Despite entailing stricter rules, the current PSBB are more lenient than the ones implemented in April and September last year.

Jakarta, for example, still allows places of worship to open, as long as the number of visitors is limited to 50 percent of the total capacity. Restaurants are also allowed to provide dine-in services until 7 p.m., while they were only allowed to service delivery and takeout orders during the previous PSBB.

It is also unnecessary for intercity travelers to provide the previously required exit and entry permits (SIKM) when leaving or entering the capital. Previously only allowed to carry goods, app-based motorcycle taxis are now allowed to carry passengers, provided they abide by health protocol.

Jakarta, the country’s epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak, continues to see a surge of coronavirus transmission, with reports suggesting that the city's healthcare system has been stretched thin.

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On Monday, Jakarta confirmed 2,461 new cases, bringing the total tally to 208,583. Last week, the capital broke the daily record with 2,959 new cases logged on Friday. The city currently records 21,365 active cases and 3,516 fatalities.

Jakarta Health Agency head Widyastuti said that around 87 percent of isolation room beds at COVID-19 referral hospitals were occupied last week. At the same time, the occupancy rate of intensive care unit (ICU) beds had reached 79 percent.

She went on to say that the city’s mortality rate had reached a concerning level, resulting in overwhelmed cemeteries across the city. Some had begun burying multiple bodies in the same grave as they ran out of unused plots.