{"id":66564,"date":"2020-03-19T23:28:38","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T15:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=66564"},"modified":"2020-03-19T23:36:14","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T15:36:14","slug":"indonesia-to-close-borders-over-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=66564","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia to close borders over Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5>By Mohd Shukri Ishak<br><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>JAKARTA, March 19 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; At midnight Thursday, Indonesia is to close its borders to foreign visitors and prohibit citizens from leaving the country for a month over the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi made the announcement during a media conference carried on the Foreign Ministry official portal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She said the Indonesian government has decided to suspend for one month the visa-free arrival, visa-on-arrival and free diplomatic \/ service visa policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTherefore, every foreigner who visits Indonesia is required to have a visa from an Indonesian representative in accordance with the purpose of the visit,\u201d she said, adding that the potential visitor, when applying for the visa,&nbsp;must attach a health certificate issued by the health authority in their respective country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Retno said this new regulation will be reviewed in accordance with suitability and developments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As at noon Thursday, 25 people have died from COVID-19 in the country. The number of cases has also risen to 309.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mohd Shukri Ishak JAKARTA, March 19 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; At midnight Thursday, Indonesia is to close its borders to foreign visitors and prohibit citizens from leaving the country for a month over the COVID-19 pandemic. Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi made the announcement during a media conference carried on the Foreign Ministry official portal. She said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":50595,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,288,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66564"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/50595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}