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COVID: Indonesia restricts inter-city travel ahead of Eid al-Fitr

Hundreds of thousands of security forces have been deployed to guard inter-city and provincial borders. The move comes ahead of Eid al-Fitr, a holiday for which tens of millions of Indonesians traditionally travel back to their hometowns. 

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