JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/Asia News Network): The government has backtracked on its decision to tighten curbs in Greater Jakarta, only a day after raising the level of public activity restrictions (PPKM) in Indonesia's epicentre of Covid-19.
Home Minister Tito Karnavian signed a ministerial instruction on Monday (July 4)declaring Jakarta and its satellite cities to be under PPKM level 2 from Tuesday to Aug 1. The region had been under PPKM Level 1 – the least stringent of the four-tiered curbs – since the end of May.
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