Coordinating Minister Airlangga Hartarto: PPKM Outside Java And Bali Extended Until February 14

JAKARTA - The government through the Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Airlangga Hartarto, has officially extended the Implementation of Community Activity Restrictions (PPKM) for areas outside Java and Bali until February 14, 2022. He conveyed the decision when holding an online press conference related to the PPKM evaluation.

"PPKM outside Java-Bali will have an extension from February 1 to 14 based on the pandemic assessment level", he said on Monday, January 31.

According to Airlangga, the government also continues to pay attention to the development of COVID-19 cases, which have now increased due to the Omicron variant. Some of the references are community transmission, mortality rates, testing, tracing and treatment, and administering vaccine doses.

"We thank the TNI (Indonesian Army) and National Police that (vaccination doses) in Maluku have increased to 67.7 percent, West Papua to 47.6 percent, but Papua is still 27.4 percent", he said.

In detail, 164 districts/cities outside Java-Bali are in PPKM level 1 status. Then, 219 districts/cities have level 2, and 3 districts/cities have level 3 status without any level 4 areas.

"Mr. President also gave directions for the continued dose or booster outside Java to be increased. Currently, nationally, the third dose is 2.3 percent and outside Java and Bali is 1.6 percent, and this will certainly be encouraged so that outside Java-Bali can be balanced with those in Java and Bali", said Airlangga.