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THE Association of Indonesian Hotels and Restaurants (PHRI) received an appeal for a ban on going home by the government in Lebaran 2021 or 1442 Hijriah in order to prevent a spike in positive cases of COVID-19.
“We are aware that the government has the authority to decide this, we must also accept the conditions,” said PHRI Chairman Hariyadi Sukamdani.
On the other hand, he hopes the government will help players in the tourism industry so that cash flow can continue to run smoothly with intervention and stimulus funds. This is because the flow of income and expenditure is not balanced considering that many people stay at home and do not travel.
Restrictions on the space for movement during the Eid holidays also have an impact on tourism actors in areas that are usually the destination for going home as well as on vacation. Lack of potential income and funds that must be spent in order to keep the business running has become lame.
“The heaviest thing is that cash flow is very depressed, indeed there must be special treatment if it can’t all collapse, between incoming money and unbalanced obligations,” he said.
The enactment of the homecoming ban will be in effect from 6-17 May 2021 for all people, including the state civil apparatus (ASN), Indonesian National Armed Forces (TNI) and Indonesian National Police (Polri), private employees and independent workers.
A number of considerations for going home were eliminated, including the contribution of the long holiday policy to the relatively high transmission and death rates of the community and health workers due to COVID-19.
This decision is also in line with the government’s policy of implementing Large-Scale Social Restrictions, Enforcing Restrictions on Micro Community Activities (PPKM), strengthening health protocols to vaccination.
Based on the written statement of the Coordinating Ministry for Human Development and Culture (PMK) to journalists, data from the COVID-19 Task Force, the Eid Al-Fitr 2020 holiday has resulted in an increase in the average number of daily cases by 68-93% with the addition of 413-559 daily cases and the number of weekly cases ranging from 2,889-3,917.
Meanwhile, the weekly death rate was between 28 and 66 percent or as many as 61 to 143 cases of death. [antaranews/photo special]
