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View all search resultsInstead of the throwing big and lavish festivals from the pre-pandemic era, the Jakarta administration has opted to host several small events that focus mostly on improving the city's economy, as the capital suffers from a new wave of COVID-19 infections that is inundating its healthcare facilities.
The Jakarta administration appears to remain confident in its approach to handling COVID-19 even as it sees a frightening resurgence of COVID-19 cases in the past week, instead blaming the general population for being lax with health protocols.
The government has sent mixed messages in its latest attempt to tweak pandemic protocols by introducing a more targeted policy on restrictions while relaxing existing curbs ahead of Chinese New Year.
Indonesia has introduced public activity restriction enforcement (PPKM) rules for a majority of Java and Bali, adding to the list of mobility jargon that includes large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) and the transitional PSBB phase.
Minority congregations such as GKI Yasmin and HKBP Filadelfia must hunker down this Christmas and hold virtual church services due to the COVID-19 outbreak, but the mobility curbs are anything but new for them.
Commuters will hopefully find transferring between different transit modes in Jakarta more convenient after the city finished the revamping of a number of transfer points, which had been delayed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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