A joint team of police, military, transportation agency and Public Order Agency (Satpol PP) personnel stops and checks a vehicle about to board a ferry at Bakauheni Port in Lampung on May 8. - Jakarta Post/ANN JAKARTA, May 29 (Jakarta Post/ANN): Indonesia has seen rampant laxness toward the health protocols in recent weeks, with people growing increasingly weary of the restrictions more than a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, which still shows no signs of ending.
In the early days of Jakarta’s Covid-19 outbreak in March 2020, Dimas Tri, 31, was among the residents who were strict about complying with the health protocols to protect themselves from the disease.
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