<span style="color: #222222;">Indonesia has announced a lockdown on its main island Java, as well as the tourism destination of Bali.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The announcement by President Joko Widodo comes as the country battles multiple outbreaks and an alarming spike in Covid cases.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Indonesia recently recorded two million Covid cases, attributed to increased holiday travel and the Delta variant.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The lockdown will last two weeks and aims to reduce the number of cases to below 10,000 a day.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The country is currently recording more than 20,000 new cases each day.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">However, experts warn that the case numbers are potentially much higher, because of severely inadequate testing outside Jakarta.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Under the new rules, all staff working for non-essential businesses will have to work from home, and distance learning will be implemented across schools.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Malls, places of worship and public leisure facilities like parks will also be shut, with dining-in banned.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Businesses including those in the health, security and energy industries have been deemed critical and will be allowed to run at 100% capacity, which means all employees can go to work. Others like financial services, which have been deemed essential, can run at 50% capacity.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Indonesia has had the worst Covid outbreak in South East Asia, with about 2.1 million positive cases and 57,000 deaths so far.</span><br />''  <br />