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Indonesia Uneasily Welcomes Chinese Tourists

Without Covid negative tests, merchants are wary

Jan 20, 2023
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By: Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat

Indonesia, like many other countries expecting a flood of tourists from China, is wrestling with how to handle them – starting next week with the Lunar New Year holiday – now that Beijing’s stringent three-year Covid-19 lockdown has been lifted.

Some 2.07 million Chinese tourists arrived in the country in 2019, the last year …

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