Rise Toward New Way of Living

The Indonesian people celebrated the New Year’s Eve in high spirits to welcome 2023, boosted by the lifting of the public activity restrictions officially announced by President Joko Widodo on Friday (30/12/2022).

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President Joko Widodo (center) accompanied by Minister of Home Affairs Tito Karnavian (left) and Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin (right) delivered a statement regarding the revocation of the implementation of restrictions on community activities (PPKM) at the State Palace, Jakarta, Friday (30/12/2022).

For almost three years, we coped with restrictions that hugely impacted our daily lives. In the early days of the pandemic, people had to pray at home and were restrained from embarking on mudik (traveling to their hometown in exodus to celebrate Idul Fitri). Like it or not, people had to compromise as part of the effort to survive the COVID-19 pandemic.

Despite all the efforts to break the chain of transmission, people fell victim to the virus. Data by Worldometer shows that the pandemic hit 228 countries with 659,467,113 positive cases and 6,686,975 deaths as of Jan. 1, 2023. Positive cases in Indonesia totaled 6,719,815 and 160,612 people have died.