Asia News Today | Indonesia’s hotel quarantine scams

Indonesia’s Tourism Ministry say authorities are cracking down on hotel quarantine scams, who he claims are allegedly perpetrated by organised groups, against foreign travellers. He’s already coined the groups the “quarantine mafia”. Police have been following up allegations of numerous reported scams in hotel quarantine across Jakarta. The scam involves travellers being told at the end of their hotel quarantine period that their PCR test result is positive, so they are forced into a special ‘isolation hotel’ where they have to pay for further accommodation. The travellers, with no symptoms, are also not allowed to get a second test to confirm the earlier positive result.Indonesian authorities say they are now cracking down on the alleged scam by allowing travellers to get an independent second test. Indonesia’s tourism minister says that the Ministry of Tourism ……