Idul Fitri as the Eid al-Fitr holiday at the end of Ramadan is known in Indonesia, is usually a busy time for so-called small-change sellers in the capital Jakarta.

In pre-pandemic years they would provide various denominations of crisp new bank notes to people who lacked the time to wait in a queue at a bank during opening hours.

During the holiday, cash is often given as gifts to children, elderly relatives and acquaintances in need. And as Jakarta is mostly a city of people whose families originally come from elsewhere, the demand for this holiday cash is typically high there too.

This year however, the government has banned the practice of returning to one's ancenstral hometown during the holiday, in the interests of containing the pandemic, so the money markets are quiet.

With the Eid holiday an important one for many families and many parts of the economy, from transport to the culinary sector, there have been protests against the travel ban.

Eid al-Fitr is coming. a victory day that should be celebrated. the tradition in Indonesia at that time was to share money. usually to friends, relatives, nephews, parents, poor fajirs who come.
usually people in the city return home. they always bring money to share there. they can spend up to Rp 10 million. hope that the blessings of life come to them.
but due to the prohibition to return to their hometowns, the money market is quiet. The main buyers here are indeed people who will return to their hometowns on the average day of Eid. Currently, many cities have locked down such as Jakarta. Jakarta is indeed inhabited by workers from out of town ..
The government is afraid that the spread of Covid 19 will explode like in India.
many protests due to this lockdown policy. transportation owners, traders, factory workers, culinary sector and many more ..
For all of them the time of Eid is the peak to earn a lot of money.
one who is very disappointed is this money trader