Foreign tourists to Indonesia in alarming drop as country logs another 6,680 cases as total goes above 1.34 million

A woman receives a shot of Sinovac's COVID-19 vaccine during a mass vaccination for traders and workers at a shopping mall in Tangerang, Indonesia, Monday, March 1, 2021. - AP

JAKARTA, March 1 (Xinhua): The number of foreign tourists coming to Indonesia was recorded at 141,300 people in January 2021, dropping by 14.90 per cent compared to December 2020 and drastically decreasing by 89.05 percent compared to that in January 2020.

The drop was because the main markets of countries where tourists coming to Indonesia are still implementing lockdown policies due to the Covid-19 pandemic, head of Indonesia's Central Agency of Statistics Suhariyanto told a virtual press conference on Monday.