We never ask what is the authority of each region

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com – DKI Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan respects the Bogor city government’s decision not to follow DKI province to re-impose large-scale social restrictions (PSBB).

The reason is that the mayor of Bogor, Bima Arya Sugiarto, only decided to extend the period of Micro and Community Social Restrictions (PSBMK) until next Monday (9/14/2020).

“There is no authority for DKI to impose itself elsewhere. Therefore, we have never asked because it is the authority of each region,” Anies said at the Central Jakarta City Council on Friday (11/9/2020).

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Meanwhile, for the procedure of hardening of office activities during the PSBB, Anies admitted that he would still discuss it in an internal meeting on Saturday (9/12/2020) tomorrow.

In addition, DKI Pemprov will coordinate the results of the meeting with the leaders of the buffer cities.

“(Coordination) with the head of the buffer region (city) after Jakarta has decided, we will discuss it,” he said.

It is known that the PSBB will be implemented again as of September 14, 2020. Anies at the time said that this decision was made considering a number of factors, namely the availability of hospital beds that were almost full and the high rate of mortality.

“At a meeting of the working group to accelerate the control of Covid 19 in Jakarta, it was concluded that we will pull the emergency brake, which means that we are forced to re-apply large-scale social restrictions as in the first days of the pandemic, “Anies said on Wednesday (9/9/2020).

According to Anies, this decision also followed the rule of President Joko Widodo, calling for health to be prioritized. With the implementation of this PSBB, it is certain that various activities, namely office activities, business, transportation, will again be restricted to public facilities.