Questionable Quarantine

Indonesian citizens who returned to the country were said to be positive for Covid-19 when undergoing a quarantine period at hotels. Officers refused independent retesting.

Hussein Abri Dongoran

July 12, 2021

FIVE days into his independent quarantine upon returning from overseas, Muljono Handjaja received bad news on the morning of Friday, June 25. An employee of the Hotel Indonesia Kempinski and a National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) officer informed him that the 71-year-old man’s polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test had come out positive for Covid-19. “I was shocked. My wife had tested negative,” Muljono told Tempo on Thursda

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