Indonesia announces total lock down on its Islands

Indonesia has announced a lockdown on its main Island Java, as well as the tourism destination of Bali.

The announcement by President Joko Widodo comes as the country battles multiple outbreaks and an alarming spike in COVID cases.

Indonesia recently recorded two million infections, attributed to increased holiday travel and the delta variant.

The lockdown will last two weeks and aims to reduce the number of cases to below 10,000 a day.

The country is currently recording more than 20,000 new infections each day.

But experts warn that the numbers are potentially much higher because of severely inadequate testing outside of the capital Jakarta.