People waiting at a bus station in Jakarta on June 22. - AFP
JAKARTA, July 11 (Jakarta Post/ANN): The government has retracted plans to raise Covid-19 curbs in Greater Jakarta, only a day after ratcheting up restrictions in the capital area amid a spike in Covid-19 cases.
Home Minister Tito Karnavian signed a ministerial instruction on Tuesday declaring that Jakarta and the cities of Tangerang and South Tangerang in Banten, as well as Bogor, Bekasi and Depok in West Java, would be under level 1 public activity restrictions (PPKM) – the most lenient set of curbs in the four-tiered system – from Wednesday until Aug. 1.
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