Indonesia

Indonesia has agreed to establish a travel corridor with South Korea to facilitate “essential business and diplomatic trips” between both countries amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Indonesia Foreign Affairs Minister Retno Marsudi said that she and South Korea Foreign Affairs Minister Jiang Qinghua had finalized arrangements for the tourist corridor on Wednesday (August 12) evening. Ms. Retno Marsudi said in ...

Mount Sumbing, also known as Gunung Sumbing, located at Central Java in Indonesia is scheduled to be reopened to local hikers from August 1, 2020, amid the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the reopening of the mountain’s Garung Hiking Trail currently in its trial phase. The entry to the base camp of the mountain will open to visitors every day from 8 ...

The Bogor Botanical Gardens located at Bogor in Indonesia, will reopen and set to welcome the local visitors again, amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Mr. Hendrian, head of the gardens’ Plant Conservation Research Center (PKT), has confirmed on Friday (July 24) that the Bogor Botanical Gardens will reopen to all visitors and all public health protocols and preventive measures against coronavirus ...

The low cost airline Scoot, a subsidiary of Singapore Airlines, has made an announcement that it will resume its operations of commercial passenger flights from Surabaya, Indonesia to Singapore starting from July 17, 2020. The carrier has informed that it will operate a weekly flight every Friday i.e. July 17, 24 and 31 on route from Surabaya to Singapore, using an ...

The provincial administration of Bali has reopened beaches in Denpasar and Badung regency on Thursday (July 9) under “strict health protocols” to local people and stranded foreign tourists after three months of lockdown restrictions to limit the risk and spread of COVID-19 pandemic in the province. Bali COVID-19 task force spokesperson I Dewa Gede Rai informed that the number of ...

Air Asia Indonesia (QZ), a low cost carrier, has updated its baggage policy on Tuesday (July 7) for passengers of domestic flights traveling during the COVID-19 pandemic and allowed passengers to carry two cabin baggage into their booked domestic flights with certain conditions. According to the updated baggage policy, one of the bags should not be bigger than 56 x ...

The Government of Bali has decided not to open the tourist destinations across Bali for visitors yet as the risk of COVID-19 transmission is rapidly increasing in the country. Mr. Doni Monardo, National COVID-19 Task Force Chief said on Wednesday (June 17) that after discussing with Bali Governor Mr. Wayan Koster all the possibilities of opening tourist destinations in Bali ...

Air Asia Indonesia (QZ), a low cost carrier, is set to resume operation of domestic passenger flights from Friday (June 19) for certain domestic routes on Monday, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. The routes include Jakarta-Bali (QZ 7520), Bali-Jakarta (QZ 7521), Jakarta-Medan (QZ 192) and Medan-Jakarta (QZ 193). The carries has released updated guidelines on its website for passengers of domestic ...

After over a month of following lockdown restrictions along with border closure, the tourist destinations and sites across Jakarta are now ready to welcome tourists again. Tourist destinations and sites in the city are scheduled to reopen starting from June 13. To prevent from the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, all tourist sites across the capital were closed for visitors ...

Indonesia’s low cost carrier Lion Air has decided to suspend all of its scheduled flights once again for overseas and domestic routes from Friday (June 5) till further notice. The announcement from the airline came just after weeks of it resuming passenger flight operations which earlier remained suspended from April 24 to limit the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) through air ...