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The government’s plan to relax the rules on homecoming has been criticized by IDI.
REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, for Sapto Andika Candra
The Government, through the Ministry of Transport, will issue a regulation derived from Permenhub No. 25 of 2020 on the Control of Transport during the Eid Mubarak Season 1441 H in the framework of Prevention of the distribution of Covid-19. Although the homecoming ban still applies, the government has an opportunity to allow ‘urgent travel’ for the sake of continued economic activity.
Transport Ministry spokeswoman Adita Irawati, through her official press release, emphasized that this bypass regulation still imposes a ban on returning home. However, the Ministry of Transport, through the General Directorate of Land, Sea, Air and Rail Transport, will prepare a circular as a regulation for Permenhub 25 in 2020.
“This follows the proposal of the Ministry of Coordination for the Economy to accommodate the urgent needs of the community so that the economy continues to function well. By providing limited passenger transport, with conditions that still comply with health protocols,” Adita said on Friday (1/5).
Until the circular was released, Adita said, current regulations regarding the ban on the use of transportation facilities remained the same as before, i.e. the ban on transporting passengers in and out of the PSBB areas, red zones and agglomeration that had already been PSBB, in all modes of transport. Meanwhile, transportation for logistics and freight continues as usual.
Adita added that the Director General’s circular would regulate the activities of providing transportation, whether by land, sea, air and rail, for people who would travel with important and urgent needs. Of course, all passengers must comply with the procedures. physical distancing which has been regulated in Permenhub 18/2020.
“The Ministry of Transport is also coordinating the technical implementation of prospective passenger inspection with important and urgent needs criteria with related parties such as the Ministry of Health and the Covid-19 Working Group to accelerate handling as a responsible party to protocols. health, “said Adita.
Earlier in a limited meeting, President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) had asked the Ministry of Transport to review the closure policy for domestic passenger flights. The reason Jokowi received a report from the region that there was a distribution of basic products that was hampered due to the policy of air transport restrictions. Although freight transportation is still allowed, the president said, operations still depend on commercial passenger flights.
“Because the name of the aircraft is only the cargo, the passenger is not, of course, the calculation will be difficult. Because the cargo actually follows the passenger plane. This is our real help. exercise so that the distribution of basic products is not interrupted, “the president said at the opening of a limited meeting at the Presidential Palace in Bogor on Tuesday (04/28).
This government plan drew criticism from the Indonesian Management Association (PBI). They reminded the government to remain consistent in complying with population mobility restrictions to prevent the spread of coronavirus infection.
PB IDI Secretariat, Protocol and Public Relations Board Halik Malik explained, the key to breaking the Covid-19 chain of transmission now is skill positive case detection that is continuously improved and accelerated. This policy, according to him, must be in line with the efforts of social restrictions that are currently underway.
“If the rates of transmission of the coronavirus in the community continue to leave behind the restrictions on the mobility of our flaccid population. As a result, transmission will become widespread, the epicenter will continue to grow and eventually will become increasingly difficult to overcome,” Halik explained. Friday (1/5).
Halik recalled that one of the main strategies to prevent the transmission of Covid-19 was to limit the mobility of the population. The goal, so that healthy people do not meet with people infected with the corona virus, and vice versa. By the time he returned home, he said, it was feared that it would be a vehicle for Covid-19 to spread and infect more people in the area.
“From the beginning, PB IDI not only asked to be appealed, but there was a government claim that a homecoming ban was imposed,” he said.
PB IDI, Halik said, also from the beginning proposed to the government to carry out mass transport restrictions to prevent the transmission of Covid-19. Mass transport restrictions, according to him, include banning land, sea and air transport from operating temporarily to stop the movement of people, especially before the return home from Lebanon.
The Covid-19 case rate in Indonesia has yet to show a national decline rate. On Friday, there were 433 confirmed Covid-19 positive patients in the past 24 hours in Indonesia.
To date, there have been 10,551 positive cases of Covid-19 since it was first announced in early March. Of the sex ratio, 58 percent of positive patients are men, while 42 percent are women.
“In fact, there are more men with Covid-19 disease,” Covid-19 government spokesman Handling Achmad Yurianto said Friday (1/5).
In addition, there were also an additional 69 patients cured in the last day, bringing the total number of patients to 1,591. Covid-19 positive patients who died also reported an increase of 8 people from Thursday (4/30) to Friday (1/5).
The total number of patients who have died so far is 800, with a ratio of deaths to positive cases of 7.58 percent. In the sex ratio, 66 percent of patients who die are men and the remaining 34 percent are women.
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