Tasikmalaya City Government Prepares Partition Posts, Returns Desperate Homecomers

TASIKMALAYA - The City Government of Tasikmalaya, West Java, together with elements of the police have set up partition posts in a number of places to inspect vehicles of people arriving from outside the city. The officer will send the driver back to his hometown if caught homecoming.

"We have about 22 blockages that will be carried out by the police, preventing those who force their homecoming to Tasik, they will be sent home," said Tasikmalaya City Mayor Muhammad Yusuf after reviewing the implementation of vaccination in Tasikmalaya, as quoted by Antara, Tuesday, April 20.

All officers at the isolation post will check the identities of all people arriving from out of town, then they will be asked for a certificate of the result of the swab test. Drivers are also asked the purpose of their arrival, if they are homecoming, they will be asked to return to their home area.

The examination, he continued, was not only at an isolation post that would enter Tasikmalaya City, but it would also be carried out in other areas, such as last year an inspection began in Cileunyi, Bandung Regency.

"Blockages have been carried out by the police, starting from Cileunyi to Tasik direction," he said.

The City Government of Tasikmalaya is ready to carry out instructions from the central government regarding security and insulation in imposing regulations on the prohibition of homecoming for the community during the Idul Fitri momentum.

He hopes that all residents of Tasikmalaya City who are outside the city will follow government regulations by first holding back to their hometowns because the condition is still a COVID-19 pandemic.

"Provisions from the center down to the regions, and we follow such problems (prohibition of homecoming), so no one should go home from outside the region to our place (Tasikmalaya)," said Yusuf.

Yusuf emphasized that the regulation on the prohibition of homecoming during Eid al-Fitr is the government's effort to minimize and stop the transmission of the COVID-19 outbreak, whose cases are still being found.

"We are also worried that they will go home, COVID is still there, we do not expect there will be a homecoming cluster here, just follow the government's advice for the good of all of us, for our health," he said.