Indonesia’s foreign visitor arrivals down 89%

Inflation rate: A vendor sells seafood at a wet market in Jakarta. Indonesia’s annual inflation rate cooled for a second straight month in February to 1.38%, the slowest since August 2020. — Reuters

JAKARTA: The number of foreign visitors arriving in Indonesia fell 89.05% in January from a year earlier to around 141,300 amid global coronavirus-linked restrictions on travel, data released by the statistics bureau showed.

Indonesia’s annual inflation rate cooled for a second straight month in February to 1.38%, the slowest since August 2020, data from the statistics bureau showed.