Bali's Ngurah Rai Airport To Reopen International Arrivals: Minister Luhut

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Indonesian government announced Monday it was set to reopen Bali’s Ngurah Rai International Airport to international flights starting October 14 with strict rules affecting the international arrivals.

“That is as long as it meets the requirements and provisions related to quarantine, testing, and the task force’s preparations,” said Luhut in Monday’s press conference. 

The rules will include a screening process to check whether a visitor has booked a hotel for an eight-day quarantine process that is self-funded. Bali will reopen international flights from South Korea, China, Japan, Abu Dhabi, and New Zealand. 

This coincides with the loosened COVID-19 restriction or PPKM for the next two weeks, or until October 18. 

The PPKM Java-Bali national coordinator announced fitness centers can now be opened under 25 percent capacity and screening with the country’s COVID-19 tracing app PeduliLindungi, which will be implemented in the agglomeration areas in the Greater Jakarta Area, Bandung, Solo, Semarang, Yogyakarta, and Surabaya. 

Food and beverage counters inside movie cinemas will also be opened but the managements must limit seating capacity to 50 percent across cities with Levels 1, 2, 3 PPKM restrictions. 

Luhut Pandjaitan claimed Indonesia’s COVID-19 pandemic had shown improvements for the past two weeks with national confirmed cases shrinking by 98 percent and those of the Java and Bali by 98.7 percent from its peak on July 15.

Read: Travelers Landing at Bali's Nugrah Rai Airport Required to Show PCR Test Pass

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