Indonesia to allow restaurants, shops to reopen in Jakarta, Bali

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Indonesia will from Tuesday start to allow the partial reopening of restaurants, shopping malls and places of worship in some areas, including in the capital Jakarta and the holiday island of Bali, President Joko Widodo has said.

Places of worship and restaurants will be allowed to operate at 25 per cent capacity while shopping malls will be allowed to operate at 50pc capacity in those places, Reuters quotes the president as saying during a virtual press conference.

Since a peak of new infections of Covid-19 in Indonesia on July 15, new cases have fallen 78pc, he added.

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