Jakarta, May 28 -- President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) highlighted the need for tourism operators in Indonesia to firstly channel greater attention to domestic tourists following the government's application of a new normal order in the tourism sector.
"I think we should first focus on domestic tourists," he noted during a limited meeting on a new normal in the tourism sector via a virtual conference at the Merdeka Palace in Jakarta on Thursday.
To this end, Jokowi issued an instruction to identify regions or tourist destination areas, with a relatively low rate of COVID-19 transmission.
The president is upbeat about a reproduction number (RO), or (Rt), of less than one in some tourist destinations.
"If that is the case, we can gradually ope...