President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo finally declared a public health emergency, one month after the first two cases in the country were confirmed on March 2.
The President issued Government Regulation No. 21/2020 on large-scale social distancing as an implementing regulation of the 2018 Health Quarantine Law to restrict the movement of people and goods within a control zone but he stopped short of allowing regional administrations to close their borders.
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