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Jakarta, CNN Indonesia –
The government has once again changed its policy to deal with the pandemic corona virus. This time according to the president’s instructions. Joko widodo, the government will implement the Application of Restrictions to Community Activities (PPKM) Microscale on Tuesday (2/9).
This microscale PPKM is a substitute for the PPKM policy that lasted for almost a month in Java and Bali. The government decided not to extend the Java-Bali PPKM because Jokowi stated that the policy was not effective in suppressing the increase in positive cases in Indonesia.
Based on records CNNIndonesia.com, PPKM Micro Scale is the fourth policy in a period of nearly a year that Indonesia has faced a pandemic. Previously, the government had implemented large-scale social restrictions (PSBB), transitional PSBB and PPKM.
Masdalina Pane, head of the Professional Development Division of the Indonesian Association of Epidemiology Experts (PAEI), assessed that the government often changes policies because Jokowi often receives incorrect information from ‘whispers’ that they are incompetent in handling of pandemics.
“I see if the main whisperer is not an expert in the field of epidemics. So, we have been screaming from the beginning, why make restrictions on such a large, wide scale?” Masdalina said when contacted. CNNIndonesia.com, Monday (2/8).
Masdalina said that until now, government policies to deal with pandemics have been misdirected. He also criticized large-scale government restrictions.
He said that the PPKM microscale that will be implemented by the government starting tomorrow is a proposal by several epidemiologists. He hopes that the government can be consistent with this policy.
“The third PPKM follows epidemiological principles, if the previous ones did not know who the whisperers were,” he said.
 Passengers boarded the Transjakarta bus while crossing the Pantung Arjuna Wiwaha area, Jakarta, on Wednesday (1/6/2021). (BETWEEN PHOTO / WAHYU PUTRO A.) |
Masdalina hopes that in the future the government will be consistent with the policies implemented. However, for the government to follow the path of pandemic control, what is needed is a correct “whisperer” and an understanding of epidemiology.
“As long as the whispers are true. I wonder, every day we only announce the soccer rankings, red, yellow, green. Top 10, what is it? If the top 10 is really why? No control From the beginning”. Masdalina said.
Griffith University epidemiologist Dicky Budiman argued that frequently changing policies come naturally in managing pandemics. However, politics must address a fundamental problem.
According to Dicky, one of Indonesia’s fundamental problems in handling a pandemic is testing, tracing and treatment or 3T, which is not optimal. Therefore, the policies adopted by the government must solve these problems.
“If the changes do not address the problem, any changes will not contribute significantly to controlling the pandemic,” said Dicky.
On the other hand, Dicky assessed that the government’s inconsistency in handling the pandemic was due to the incomplete strategy implemented from the beginning. Dicky also commented on the government that formed a series of ad hoc institutions such as the Covid-19 Working Group and the Committee for the Management of Covid-19 and National Economic Recovery (KPC-PEN).
According to Dicky, the Ministry of Health should have been the leading sector in managing pandemics from the beginning.
“The Ministry of Health has experience, competence, so they know the stages and the WHO (World Health Organization) has also provided guidance, the pandemic response already exists, the pre, during and post pandemic stages, phase 1, 2 There is, “he explained.
Currently, the number of daily positive cases of Covid-19 infection in Indonesia has increased by 10,827 cases on Sunday (7/2). Thus, the total has reached 1,157,837 people since the first cases were announced in early March 2020.
Of these cases, 949,990 of them were declared cured with 10,806 additional cases of daily recovery.
Meanwhile, 31,556 patients were declared dead or an increase of 163 people from the previous day.
(dmi / pmg)
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