Police are battling a tide of fake travel documents as citizens try to return to their hometowns. FMTNews
People shop in preparation for the upcoming Eid al-Fitr holiday at a market in Jakarta yesterday.
Every year, millions of travellers pack into airports, train stations and ports across the nearly 5,000km long archipelago in a mass migration similar to China’s Lunar New Year holiday or Christmas. With the help of friends, the couple said they managed to obtain a government-agency stamped letter that claimed their daughter was hired to distribute pandemic supplies in her hometown Makassar on Sulawesi island.
Frustrated police are battling a tide of fake travel documents being sold online and through word of mouth, with authorities on holiday island Bali last week arresting seven people suspected of peddling bogus papers.Some of the Southeast Asian nation’s mosques are expected to draw big crowds despite official calls to pray at home.
Indonesia recorded its biggest one-day jump in virus cases this week with the nationwide death toll at 1,326 – the highest in Asia outside China.
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