If the threat of a global coronavirus pandemic isn’t enough to keep some people indoors, what about the threat of being locked up with “ghosts” in a haunted house?
Lawmakers in Indonesia‘s Sragen region have started confining quarantine violators to abandoned buildings on the island of Java, where local legends suggest the abodes might be haunted.
It’s part of a novel effort to motivate a superstitious population through the supernatural when scientific arguments fall short.
Kusdinar Untung Yuni Sukowati, regency head of Sragen, issued the order earlier this week amid a surge in newcomers from other locked-down parts of the country, including the capital city of Jakarta.