July 8
In a bid to stem the spread of multiple covid variant strains presently causing surging case numbers around the country, the Indonesian government has today announced that foreign travellers entering the country will need to be fully vaccinated and will need to show a negative rapid antigen or pcr test result taken no more than three days before entering the country.
The same conditions will apply to all domestic travel between islands in the country, although Indonesian citizens are only required to have had one shot of an approved vaccine in order to be allowed to travel.
Foreigners are now also required to quarantine for eight days at a designated facility, an increase on the previous five day requirement and are recommended to self quarantine for a further fourteen days.
Although tourist visas are still not being issued, it is unclear how the new announcements will affect earlier plans to promote Bali as a vaccination destination. Authorities are still waiting to see a drastic reduction in the number of new daily cases in Bali as well as the neighbouring island of Java before revisiting plans to reopen the island of Bali to International tourists.