Healthy Folks Should be allowed to Travel

Hariyadi Sukamdani, Chairman of the Indonesian Hotels and Restaurants Association (PHRI), was quick to register his members in the second stage of the national Covid-19 vaccination program. His desire is to have all 121,500 PHRI members working in the hotel and tourism industry to be vaccinated. But this wish is hampered by the limited amount of vaccine availability. Hariyadi said that vaccinating tourism workers is important to revive the industry, especially in Bali, which had taken a hard blow from suspended tourism. Hariyadi, who is also the CEO of Sahid Group and Chairman of the Indonesian Employers Association (Apindo), supports the government’s plan to open a Covid-free corridor in collaboration with several nations.

Mahardika Satria Hadi

March 29, 2021

ONCE the government kicked off the Covid-19 vaccination program in January, Indonesian Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI) Chairman Hariyadi Sukamdani immediately took personal data of each association member. He opened registrations for workers of the hotel and restaurant industries to get the vaccines during the second phase of the program. “Hotel and restaurant employees interact with people. That makes us public servants, too,&rdquo

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