Jayapura, Papua – The Elections Supervisory Firm (Bawaslu) in Papua has actually encouraged that all members of the province’s General Elections Commission (KPU) go through swab tests so the preparations for this year’s simultaneous local elections are not interfered with.
Talking about a verified COVID-19 case at the KPU-Papua office, the Bawaslu-Papua Office’s commissioner, Ronald Manoach, told local journalists here on Wednesday that the KPU authority was likewise advised to take several preventive steps.
In addition to massive swab testing, sanitizing the KPU-Papua Workplace’s building is also needed to ensure that all phases of the simultaneous local elections in the province can be executed as set up, he said.
The KPU-Papua Office had actually validated previously that one of the commission’s members had contracted the unique coronavirus illness and had actually been confessed to a regional healthcare facility.
” Presently, the commission’s member is being dealt with at the health center’s isolation ward,” secretary of the KPU-Papua Provincial Office, Ryllo Ashuri Panay, said.
To halt the prospective spread of COVID-19, the commission authority will sanitize the KPU workplace, arrange swab testing for the commission’s members and employees at its secretariat, and activate a work-from-home policy.
The WFH policy will work from September 10 to September 17, 2020, Panay included.
The KPU offices in 9 provinces, 224 districts, and 37 cities are busily getting ready for all stages of the local elections, which will be held at the same time on December 9, 2020.
In Papua province, qualified Papuan voters from the districts of Waropen, Supiori, Merauke, Yalimo, Boven Digul, Asmat, Mamberamo Raya, Nabire, Keerom, Pegunungan Bintang, and Yahukimo will exercise their democratic right to vote.
Ahead of the regional election, President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has actually highlighted the importance of applying stringent COVID-19 avoidance health protocols during every phase of the polls as public health stays an unwavering top priority.
According to the Indonesian Medical Association (IDI), a number of offenses of the health protocols took place during the registration process for prospects contesting this year’s local elections, hung on September 4-6.
The infractions were observed in cities and districts such as Medan in North Sumatra, Solo in Central Java, Karawang district in West Java, and Surabaya in East Java, where people had actually collected in motorcades to show their support for prospects.
For this year’s regional elections, President Jokowi has bought Home Minister Tito Karnavian and National Police Chief, Gen. Idham Azis, to take strict action to prevent the spread of COVID-19 (INE)
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