Where once a beach holiday required little more than a passport and a ticket, the process will be considerably less carefree, for now at least.
Other big travel markets that may let their countrymen take a holiday jaunt to Indonesia include China and some farther afield, like the Netherlands, Poland and Ukraine, Sandiaga said. To be sure, supply will be limited. Sandiaga envisages groups of no more than 50 people boarding boats to Batam and Bintan, two of the five green zones proposed for accepting foreign tourists.
The government of President Joko Widodo aims to vaccinate at least 70 per cent of Bali's 4.4 million residents in the coming months to slow the spread of the pandemic, he said. Once bursting at the seams, Ubud is empty - its restaurants boarded up, its blockbuster destinations desolate.