Jakarta –
The COVID-19 pandemic has created 1,033 restaurant permanently closed. This figure will increase to 750 or more if the discourse on the Jakarta weekend lockdown is actually implemented.
Fortunately, the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government has stated that it does not implement a weekend lockdown policy.
The chairman of the BPD Association of Indonesian Hotels and Restaurants (PHRI) DKI Jakarta, Sutrisno Iwantono said, the Central PHRI in September 2020 had conducted a survey of more than 9,000 restaurants in Indonesia with 4,469 respondents. From there, it was found that 1,033 restaurants were permanently closed.
Then, from October 2020 until now it is estimated that around 125 to 150 restaurant permanently closed per month. He said that if the weekend lockdown policy is implemented, around 750 restaurants will be permanently closed.
“If this option goes through, we can be sure that restaurant closures will permanently reach around 750 again,” he said in a teleconference, Friday (5/2/2021).
“I think maybe more because there are also many restaurants that do not report, independent which are not necessarily members of PHRI,” he continued.
He also asked the government to carefully weigh the policy. He said, even if there should be a lockdown at the weekend, his party suggested several things that could be considered.
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