Singapore Opens the Door for Indonesian, Batam Entrepreneurs: This is a Good News

Editor: Putri Larasati Anggiawan

TRIBUNBATAM.id, BATAM - Singaporean and Indonesian governments agreed to open the border route at the end of October.

The opening of the border line is termed a reciprocal green lane or RGL.

Those who will cross the borders of the two countries, both by air and sea, are still limited for business purposes and important official officials between the two countries.

Responding to the opening of the route between Singapore and Indonesia, General Manager of Nongsa Pura Ferry Terminal, Iwan Surajitno welcomed the plan to open the border route for both land and air routes.

"We are ready and we are looking forward to it," he said.

On a separate occasion, the Montigo Resort Social Media Manager, Nongsa Ilham Wibisono, also responded positively to the plan to open the Singapore-Indonesian border.

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"I think this is good news and I await the next steps prepared by the two countries to restore the tourism sector," he said

Ilham said that if it will be opened for tourism later, he also asked that supervision at the entrance must be tightened because it is still in the middle of the Covid-19 Pandemic.

"But it must still be done carefully and in accordance with agreed health protocols and other regulations, in order to recover the economic and tourism sectors that can benefit both countries," he said.

Ilham said that tourism actors have actually prepared the return of foreign tourists by improving services according to standard health protocols in the new normal era.

Meanwhile, the General Manager of Batam View Beach Resort, Anddy Fong is also in line with the Montigo Resort Manager.

Anddy welcomed the plan to open access to Indonesia Singapore.

"All the opening of access to Batam from Singapore has made great progress for us, even though we are still limited by visas and others related to the Covid-19 protocol," he said.

Anddy said the border opening was good news.

"This is a good access opening, hopefully it can revive tourism which is currently sluggish," he said. (TribunBatam.id)

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