Indonesia announces plans to reduce quarantine from 10 days to 7 days
Indonesia announces plans to reduce quarantine from 10 days to 7 days

Indonesia announces plans to reduce quarantine from 10 days to 7 days

Indonesia plans to reduce quarantine to 7 days in a breaking news announcement from Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan on 3rd January 2022.

In yet another unexpected announcement on 3rd January 2022, President Jokowi gave the go ahead to release the news that quarantine would be reduced from 10 days to 7 days for general travellers entering Indonesia and 10 days (reduced from 14 days) for Indonesian citizen arriving from Omicron effected countries. No new country list was provided, but the last circular included: South Africa, Botswana, Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Eswatini, Lesotho, United Kingdom, Denmark & Norway. Please note that France has now also been added to this list as of circular dated 4th January attached below.

The announcement was made by Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan in an online press conference, who didn’t give a specific reason for the reduction in quarantine, except for the promising low cases of Covid.

Please note this announcement was shared in the afternoon on 3rd January 2022, we do not know when this will come into effect, we assume immediately. Additionally, no official decree has been released as of yet, as and when we get more information, we shall share on our social media channels and attach a copy of the announcement to this article.

***News Update***

As we reported on 3rd January, a circular was finally released advising that the 7-day quarantine will take effect as of the 7th January. Please see below the circular from SATGAS (Indonesian Covid Task Force).

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