TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Minister of Villages, Development of Disadvantaged Regions, and Transmigration, Abdul Halim Iskandar, issued permission for the opening of Bali tourism villages as a support of a program called 'Work From Bali' to revive the economic sector on the Indonesian resort island.

The minister said that Bali Island is the national icon where its people rely on their life from the tourism sector.

“To revive the economy in the tourism sector, we fully support the government to run the ‘Work from Bali’ program to recover the economy in this region,” said the minister in his working visit to monitor the village fund program in Tabanan, Bali, Saturday, May 29.

According to Abdul Halim Iskandar, the economic sector in the region must soon be revived gradually. Therefore, his side supports the government’s WFB program to open all of the tourism sectors on the Island of the Gods where they will work from.

“The form of support from the Village Ministry will be the same; by opening all of the tourism villages in Bali as the base of economic recovery,” he added.

If the tourism destinations on the island are widely opened, the minister said, then the Covid-19 cases should be the focus of concern of the regional government.

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