Indonesia is gradually loosening some of its rules when it comes to COVID-19.
This week, President Joko Widodo said new cases have fallen nearly 80% since the middle of July.
In some areas, restaurants and places of worship can now operate at 25% capacity---shopping malls at half of their capacity.
That includes on the island of Java, home to the capital of Jakarta, where the government says more than 54% of residents are now fully vaccinated.
The vaccination rate is much lower elsewhere. Reuters puts it at about 11% nationally, and health officials say the Delta variant is still spreading rapidly on other islands.
The government says more than 80 million additional doses of vaccines will be arriving next month, mostly from the Chinese company Sinovac and its Indonesian licensee.
Another point of controversy was a proposal by the Education Minister this week to get students back in the classroom in certain areas — even if older students are not vaccinated.
Most schools in the country have been closed since March of last year — and the Jakarta Post reports the idea of re-opening has gotten pushback from local government leaders and teachers.
