Highlights Muhadjir Effendy, Bali Tourism Actors Reject PPKM Level 3 Christmas-New Year Holiday Which Is Considered Strange

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DENPASAR - Tourism actors in Bali rejected the plan to implement PPKM level 3 on the Christmas-New Year holidays. PPKM level 3 was decided by the central government to be implemented throughout Indonesia.

The rejection of PPKM level 3 was conveyed by the Bali Marginal Tourism Actors Alliance (APPMB), which consists of daily tourism workers (DW), freelance guides, freelance drivers, conventional drivers, souvenir sellers, traders to tourist destination guards.

The head of APPMB Bali Puspa Negara asked the central government to cancel the plan to implement PPKM level 3 for the Christmas-New Year holidays. This policy is considered strange.

"There is information from the Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture Muhadjir Effendy who said that in order to prevent crowds and limit community activities at the end of the year PPKM Level 3 will be implemented throughout Indonesia. This is certainly very strange and eccentric for Bali," said Puspa in a written statement, Tuesday, November 23.

According to him, PPKM level 3 has become a new burden when Bali tourism begins to move.

"In the middle, we are preparing to rise in rhythm with the current PPKM level falling to Level 2 and instead hope to continue to decline to Level 1 and if necessary to level 0 without restrictions and towards true normal," he added.

In the perspective of Bali tourism, the decline in the level of PPKM gives hope for economic movement. When PPKM level 2 was implemented in Bali, the tourism movement began to increase.

"We hope that by the end of this year tourism will return to life, although still with strict and innovative processes. If Muhadjir Effendy's words are properly implemented, it is certain that Bali as a destination cannot move, aka the people in the destination will be dying," he said.

"The material loss is the cancellation of year-end bookings that have started to enter the domestic market. Likewise, several events with procedures must be canceled. If it is calculated that the implementation of PPKM Level 3 at the end of this year, business actors and the public will certainly lose billions of rupiah," he explained.

The same thing was conveyed by the Head of the Promotion and Development Division of Tanah Lot tourism objects, Tabanan Regency, Bali, Kadek Niti. His party respects the government's efforts to deal with COVID-19, but asks that the PPKM level 3 policy be reviewed.

"We respect every government policy in handling the pandemic. However, our hope, especially in tourism, is that it can be re-examined because tourism has just started to expand. Moreover, it is hoped that at the end of this year for tourist visits. Of course, our hope is that the policy will not be too burdensome for the tourism world," he said. Separate nitty.

PPKM level 3 is sure Niti will have an impact on the level of tourist visits. This restriction makes tourism movement space again depressed.

"Hopefully there won't be any more restrictions because according to the application, we have been limited," he said.