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Chairman of the Association of the Indonesian Tours and Travel Agencies (Asita) Budijanto Ardiansyah, requested travel and tourism agents, to sell affordable tourist packages after the Covid-19 pandemic ends. The price determination, according to Budijanto, must be coordinated between stakeholders. With competitive packages, travel agents will have better opportunities to attract tourists.

Therefore, the recovery period for the tourism sector after the Covid-19 pandemic will be relatively short. In addition to the tourism package price, Budijanto also requested the government to support businesses, by involving travel agents in organizing work meetings. By involving agents, all of the sectors involved in tourism businesses will receive benefits, such as tour guides, souvenir shops, even artists providing attractions. Therefore, informal workers in the tourism sector who had lost their income can be revived//Tempo

As many as 51 employees of PT Freeport Indonesia in Tembagapura have been recorded positive with coronavirus or Covid-19 infection. From the total number, as many as 42 employees have conducted self-isolation.

The spokesman for the Mimika Regency Covid-19 Task Force dr. Raynold Ubra in Jayapura stated on May 2. Based on circulating information, the self-isolation location is provided by PT Freeport.

Self-isolation is also applied to employees under the patient under monitoring status. Ubra, who is also the Head of Mimika Regency Health Agency added that based on reports, the isolated employees are employees of PT Freeport and employees of the company's sub-contractors.

PT Freeport spokesman, Reza Pratama said that currently, the operational condition of PT Freeport remains normal//Tempo

South Africa began to gradually ease its strict coronavirus lockdown on Friday, allowing some industries to reopen after five weeks of restrictions, that plunged its struggling economy deeper into turmoil.

As quoted by AFP.com, the economy of Africa's most industrialised nation was already teetering, with low growth and high debts when the lockdown kicked in on March 27.

On Wednesday S&P downgraded the country's credit rating further to junk. With 5,647 confirmed cases and 103 fatalities, South Africa has the continent's highest COVID-19 death toll//AFP

Kim Jong-un has appeared in public for the first time in 20 days, North Korean state media says.

Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reports that the North Korean leader cut the ribbon, at the opening of a fertiliser factory. It adds that people at the factory broke into thunderous cheers of hurrah, when he appeared on Friday.

The reported appearance,his first since an event on state media on 12 April - comes amid global speculation over his health. The latest reports from North Korean media could not be independently confirmed.

Asked about Mr Kim's reported reappearance, US President Donald Trump told reporters that he didn't want to comment yet.

Speculation about Mr Kim's health began, after he missed the birth anniversary celebrations of his grandfather, state founder Kim Il Sung on 15 April.

The anniversary is one of the biggest events in the North Korean calendar, and Mr Kim usually marks it, by visiting the mausoleum where his grandfather lies. Mr Kim had never missed this event//BBC