Minister Zainuddin Amali Does Not Want To Rashly Give Recommendations For Sports Activities That Present Spectators

JAKARTA - Minister of Youth and Sports of the Republic of Indonesia (Menpora) Zainudin Amali asserted, he does not want to be rash in providing recommendations for sports activities that present spectators.

The message was delivered by The Minister of Amali when he was the speaker of the Program Lunch Talk Berita Satu TV virtually at sitroom Kemenpora, Senayan, Jakarta.

Lately there has been a discourse to present a limited audience in sports activities. Amali emphatically said it had not yet made any recommendations for it.

"Until now we have not, because we have not discussed. I do not want to be rash because now the implementation of the Menpora Cup alhamdulillah until now has entered the semi-finals of its prokesnya awake," said Minister zainuddin Amali, Monday, April 12.

To this day pre-season activities for football have not been attended by spectators. All that will enter the stadium there is already a limited number. A maximum of 290 people are alone from thousands of stadium capacity, and that includes security guard ambulance drivers and so on.

"All who will enter the stadium should already be in the antigen swab and it is done routinely by the committee. Alhamdulillah to this day there is nothing alarming. Even basketball that has finished the game, thank God no case has emerged. Because I want to, I want to give recommendations if the prokesnya serious and disciplined," explained Amali.

He exemplified, if the football game is held in the afternoon, then the morning should have been swab PCR.

"If they play in the afternoon or evening, then at 9 am should have diswab PCR, even some say it tends to be tight. If abroad celebrations can be embraced if in Indonesia is prohibited, just raise your hands alone do not have to hug," he said.

"Our guideline is the safety and health of our people. Therefore, we must support the government's efforts to conduct micro-scale PPKM," added The Minister of Amali.

Head of Tracing Task Force COVID-19 Koesmedi Priharto said the COVID-19 virus is still a lot of problems including the mutation of the virus is enough to make problems in some countries that were calm finally troubled again.

"The virus is quite malignant, causing many deaths and transmissions, the costs that have been incurred are also not small. The most important effort is to realize that people coexist with Covid-19 with the discipline of implementing 3M," he said.

"We urge to remain compliant with health protocols. We know there are some sports that supporters find difficult to control but there are also those that are easy to do," he added.