Eid Al-Fitr Holidays Get Trimmed, The House Of Representatives Asks Citizens To Understand The Situation In Order To Suppress The COVID-19 Cases

JAKARTA - Deputy Chairman of Commission IX of the House of Representatives (DPR), Melkiades Laka Lena, agreed with the government's policy to reduce collective leave on holidays from seven days to only two days.

According to him, cutting this leave is one of the efforts to prevent a spike in cases of COVID-19 transmission.

"By trimming the Eid Al-Fitr leave and also limiting the homecoming will also limit the potential for the virus to move from one person to another", said Melki in his statement, Tuesday, February 23.

Referring to the long Eid holiday last year, Melki assessed that this policy could have an impact on the movement of the community which had an impact on positive cases of COVID-19.

Therefore, Melki hopes that the public can tolerate, understand and comply with this deduction of collective leave. "Yes, as the government's efforts to keep the curve of COVID-19 cases from getting worse after the long holidays", he said.

It is known that the Government decided to cut collective leave from 7 days to 2 days in 2021. This was followed by the signing of a Joint Decree (SKB) between the Minister of Religion, the Minister of Manpower, and the Minister of Administrative Reform and Bureaucratic Reform (Menpan RB) Number 281 of 2021, Number 1 2021.

This Ministerial Decree regulates Amendments to the Joint Decree of the Minister of Religion, Minister of Manpower, Minister of State Apparatus Empowerment and Bureaucratic Reform Number 642 of 2020, Number 4 of 2020, Number 4 of 2020 concerning National Holidays and Joint Leave in 2021.