Indonesia announces internal travel ban during Eid al-Fitr over Covid-19
The Peninsula
Jakarta: Indonesia on Thursday announced an internal travel ban during next month's Eid al-Fitr celebrations, in an effort to prevent large-scale transmission of the coronavirus, a transport official said.
The world's most populous Muslim-majority nation is gearing up for the start of the holy month of Ramadan next week as it continues to battle one of Asia's highest rates of transmission of COVID-19. The halt on sea, land, air and rail travel for the May 6 to 17 holiday adds to a ban announced last month by Indonesia on the mass exodus tradition, locally known as "mudik", where vast numbers of people head en masse to their home provinces.
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