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Indonesia to close border to all foreign nationals from New Year
The Indonesian government said Monday it will close its borders to all international visitors for two weeks starting New Year s Day, as the country tries to keep out a potentially more transmissible variant of the coronavirus.
Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi told a press conference that the new regulation would be effective Jan. 1 to 14 and applies to all foreign visitors except for high-level government officials.
An Indonesian tourist walks in the complex of Buddhist temple Borobudur, one of the country s popular tourist destinations, in Magelang Regency in Central Java Province on Aug. 6, 2020. (Photo courtesy of the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy) (Kyodo)
3 January 2021
Author: Liam Gammon, ANU
How do you oversee one of the world’s worst outbreaks of COVID-19, ram through unpopular economic reforms during a recession and end up retaining the sort of approval ratings most democratic leaders would walk across coals for? Ask Indonesian President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo, who according to most rules of political gravity ought to have had a tough 2020. Instead, what stood out in Indonesia’s pandemic year was the resilience of the political status quo amid an ‘endless first wave’ of COVID-19.
Indonesia’s decentralised government, large informal economy, high rates of smoking and non-communicable disease, and under-resourced health care system meant that the country was going to be highly vulnerable to COVID-19 no matter who was in charge. But Indonesia has performed worse than many countries at similar levels of development, due in no small part to a government response that was focussed more on politics than public health.