DPR Says Indonesia's Indicators Are Ready To Enter Endemic Measured By Technology

JAKARTA - Member of Commission VII DPR from the Golkar Party, Ridwan Hisjam, said technology is an indicator in the transition period to enter the endemic phase. According to him, Indonesia, which plans to change the status of the pandemic, needs to pay close attention to it.

"In my opinion, if it has become endemic, it is technology and industry that plays a role, that's all. Because endemic is like a disease in the past. There is bird flu or influenza," said Ridwan in Jakarta, Wednesday, March 9, quoted from Antara.

Responding to when Indonesia could enter an endemic, Ridwan said that the country is currently in the transition phase from a pandemic to an endemic. However, there are several indicators that differ and become a requirement for each country to enter an endemic.

For Indonesia, some of these indicators are technology and environmental monitoring, especially air in public spaces. The state must pay close attention to air circulation throughout the public environment, even from the family environment.

Because, a house or a closed room does not have ultraviolet from sunlight that can destroy the virus. So Ridwan explained that every house needs help from technology in order to prevent the transmission of the virus through the air inside the house.

On the other hand, technology can make various human activities indoors safer with artificial ultraviolet rays or machines that can destroy proteins in the COVID-19 spike.

According to him, technology can also weaken and impose limits on COVID-19, which has a fast transmission and circulates in the air. While humans form antibodies through the COVID-19 vaccine.

“Just like the Eukalyptus Machine Air (EMA) that we are launching now. We hope that even though we have entered an endemic, humans in Indonesia can be independent, in the sense that they no longer use health protocols and live a normal life as usual," he said.

Meanwhile, to prevent new viruses or new diseases from appearing in the future, Ridwan asked the public to start taking part in maintaining environmental cleanliness, starting with sorting waste by type, such as dry waste, wet waste and recycling.

He hopes that by starting from sorting the waste, the community can avoid various diseases and make waste have a marketability so that it will not only form a healthy environment but also be economical.

“Let the boundaries be managed by nature and technology, but we are currently in prison. Technology does nothing. That's why the state must be able to make a breakthrough to solve this problem through technology," he said.