Jakarta – The Presidential Personnel Office has asked the general public to maintain discipline and comply with the health procedures to support efforts to avoid a second wave of COVID-19 infections in Indonesia.
” The most important thing in the brand-new typical period is discipline and obedience of the public towards health protocols,” said Main Specialist Staff to the Presidential Personnel Workplace (KSP), Donny Gahral Adian, at a virtual conversation on Saturday in Jakarta.
He stated he believed there requires to be guidance, dissemination of details, enforcement and policies regarding the procedures, otherwise, it would become tough to make sure people follow health measures in a disciplined manner.
Practices that are being motivated now were never ever or rarely adhered to under typical scenarios, for example, using masks, cleaning hands consistently, and avoiding physical contact, he kept in mind.
Such procedures, he stated, were often overlooked in typical times, however they require to end up being an everyday practice in the new normal period.
” I think this is very important since, without compliance and discipline, and supervision and enforcement (of protocols) by the central and local federal governments together, it is feared that Indonesia might see a second wave of COVID-19,” he cautioned.
President Joko Widodo had actually previously expressed the hope the spread of COVID-19 would continue to decline in the nation through efforts to discipline the general public to comply with health protocols, as specified in the standards for Large-Scale Social Constraints (PSBB).
The President said the rate of COVID-19 transmission, as measured by the Reproduction Number (R0), had actually dropped listed below one in a number of provinces of Indonesia.
The President prepares to massively set in motion the National Armed force (TNI) and Police (Polri) forces to encourage the public to adhere to the health protocols.
He stated the enforcement of health protocols and the implementation of TNI and Polri officers would be carried out in 4 provinces and 25 districts and cities that have carried out the PSBB to break the chain of COVID-19 transmission.
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