Malls In DKI Jakarta Will Be Empty Of Visitors Until 2022

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JAKARTA - Chairman of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin), Rosan Roeslani, said visitors to malls or modern shopping centers in DKI Jakarta during the transition period of large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) only ranged from 20 percent to 30 percent.

Rosan explained that the low number of community visits to the mall was inseparable from the COVID-19 health activity protocol. Apart from being afraid of catching the virus, the government also limits the number of mall visitors during this transitional period.

"The number of visitors or workers and tenants must be less than 50 percent of the provided capacity," he said, in a virtual discussion, Tuesday, July 28.

Not only that, Rosan predicts, the reduction in visitors to this mall is expected to continue until 2022. Because, there is no certainty when the COVID-19 pandemic will end.

"We have to start to realize that this is not a short term and we have to make assumptions until the end of 2021. Even until 2022," he said.

Rosan said, in a difficult situation due to a crisis that hit from two sides at once, namely demand and supply, entrepreneurs must be able to think creatively and innovate. The goal is none other than so that the economy can run, even though it is side by side with the COVID-19 outbreak.

Until now, the occupancy rate of outlets or tenants in malls has reached an average of 90 percent. However, for mall managers, this does not mean good news, because not all tenants have already paid shop space rent, or some have slammed rental prices due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.