Twenty-year-old Ananda Aurora Kaherunnisa, seeing that company for her small taichan satay eatery had started to pick up again, made the decision to rehire two employees who were formerly furloughed. Not long after, she discovered Jakarta’s decision to reimpose full-fledged large-scale social limitations (PSBB), reversing the previous path of transitional PSBB. The transitional PSBB, which started in June, were implemented to allow the economy to partly resume under certain health protocols. “We had actually returned to conventional [sales] as we entered the brand-new normal under health procedures. With the return [on Sept. 14] of the PSBB, we are shaken once again,” Ananda told The Jakarta Post in a phone interview on Friday. Ananda’s satay stall, Sate Taichan Tbob, located in Cilandak, South Jakarta, just recently saw sales surpass 4,000 skewers per day from less than 2 …
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