The tourism sector is all geared up to make a stronger come back once the pandemic is over. As most of countries have imposed lock down and travel bans, the leisure and traveling/hospitality sectors are among the most hit and affected sectors. Over 150000 employees have been severely impacted due to the closure of at least 1266 hotels in Indonesia in April alone.Some of the five stars hotels in Jakarta have decided to suspend their operations completely while some are still operating and welcomi...

Amid the covid-19 crisis, Bali appeared to be one of the safest places in Indonesia with low count of affected patients and casualties. However one would argue that if it is still the case? 22nd May was marked as the start of Idul Fitri holidays, it has always been the most prominent holiday of Indonesia. This is when people mudik or travel back to their original home towns and villages. Even though government banned the mudik travel till 31st May, a loophole has created relaxed travel, whereby...

The government of Indonesia has announced that regions of the country that will meet the main two conditions  to be able to ease COVID-19 mobility restrictions and start welcoming the so-called "new normal" as the country braces itself to open the economy gradually.The conditions require the regions to either have maintained the zero cases of Covid-19 or have observed a significant decrease in the number of positive reported infections. This will help in relaxing the curb and reopen businesses u...

Cloud seeding has been started by Indonesia for the rain to minimize the annual archipelago forest fires which gets the blame of blanketing swathes of Southeast Asia in toxic haze.Last year fires were observed the worst ones after 2015 which resulted in 1.6 million million hectares of land razed by the uncontrollable fire blazes mostly in  Sumatra and Borneo islands.Authorities had to deploy over ten thousand personnel with water bombing air crafts to control the fires which as some would say ar...

You may have come across the news and rumors about Bali opening up for tourism soon however it may not be true. Bali Governor Wayan Koster said yesterday that Bali is in a process of recovery, the whole focus is on the public health and the crisis amid Covid-19 pandemic. This doesn't include any plans of restarting the tourism activities in the near future.“We are prioritizing health in Bali. The president has also agreed that tourism will be [considered] last,” Bali Governor Wayan KosterBali wi...