Regional Secretary Kadarmanta Make Sure There Are No Restrictions On Tourist Visits In Yogyakarta
YOGYAKARTA - Regional Secretary (Sekda) of the Special Region of Yogyakarta (DIY) Kadarmanta Baskara Aji ensured that there would be no restrictions on tourist visits in this province during the 2022 Christmas and 2023 New Year holidays. Although not limited, tourists are required to implement health protocols."Although there are no restrictions on visits to DI Yogyakarta or tourist destinations, it is mandatory to continue implementing the prokes," said Baskara Aji during a press conference at the Office of the Regent, Yogyakarta, quoted from Antara, Tuesday, December 20.According to him, the DIY Regional Government has asked the managers of tourist objects, hotels, malls, traditional markets, and other crowded centers to activate prokes support facilities, including the PeduliLindung scan as a condition for entering tourists."Health protocols are still being carried out, PeduliLindung is reactivated, which yesterday was not active," he said.For managers of tourist objects who are reluctant to comply with these rules, he ensures that they will impose sanctions. "For managers who do not comply and do not comply, there will be sanctions. We will reprimand them, if they have been reprimanded, they cannot, of course there will be sanctions," he said.Aji hopes that all parties can maintain the implementation of health protocols so that the momentum of the Christmas and New Year holidays does not actually trigger cases of COVID-19 transmission to increase again."We don't want the happy momentum of Christmas and New Year to cause an increase in COVID-19 cases in DIY," he said.Head of the Economic Administration Bureau and SDA of the DIY Regional Secretariat Yuna Pancawati said the number of tourists who came to DIY had begun to increase, especially from the families of students who were studying in Yogyakarta."There have been a lot of student parents, students who do not go home but their parents come to Yogyakarta for a trip," said Yuna.Previously, the Head of the Yogyakarta Special Region Transportation Service (DIY) Ni Made Dwipanti Indrayanti estimated that around 4.1 million people would enter the DIY area ahead of the 2022 Christmas and 2023 New Year holidays.With this number, Ni Made then estimates that the total number of people who carry out mobility in the DIY area when the momentum of the year-end holiday reaches seven million people, including local residents.