No need to suggest blocking provinces

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com – President Joko Widodo made an assessment emergency shutdown At the city, district and province levels, reducing the spread of Covid-19 is not the right solution.

The reason is, according to Jokowi, emergency shutdown at the city, district and province level it can sacrifice people’s lives.

“There is no need to speculateemergency shutdown provinsi, Iemergency shutdown city, or menemergency shutdown district, because it will sacrifice people’s lives, “said Jokowi in a video uploaded to the YouTube account of the Secretariat of the Presidency, on Saturday (03/10/2020).

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Jokowi said the government’s strategy to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic was to find a point of balance between public health interests and economic interests.

To that end, Jokowi emphasized the importance of implementing social constraints on a micro or micro scale.emergency shutdown instead of doing emergency shutdown at the city, district or province level.

“We make it more focused, specific, focused, sharp to overcome the Covid problem but without killing the economy and people’s lives, this is what we have to do,” Jokowi said, “Jokowi said.

Jokowi also asked the public not to think that the government was acting mencla-mencle related to policy adjustments amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

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The former governor of DKI Jakarta recalled that the Covid-19 pandemic is a new problem that has arisen in all countries where no country can claim to have the best solution.

“Each country also has different problems, different ways of handling them, so we also have to keep adjusting to find the best way that best suits our situation,” Jokowi said.