COVID-19 Cases Soared Drastically, TNI-Polri Hold Operation Justice In 29 Red Zone Areas

JAKARTA - Head of the COVID-19 Task Force (Satgas) Ganip Warsito received orders from President Joko Widodo to concentrate on disciplining the implementation of the 3M health protocol, namely wearing masks, maintaining distance, and washing hands through judicial operations.

Not only that, the former Governor of DKI Jakarta also ordered the COVID-19 Task Force to optimize the activities of the Community Activity Restrictions (PPKM) post for prevention, handling, guidance, and support. This, said Ganip, has been implemented with the TNI and Polri.

"The implementation of the TNI and Polri has carried out assistance to post and thicken personnel in areas that are in the red zone, namely 29 regions to carry out judicial operations in order to enforce health protocol discipline," said Ganip in a press conference broadcast on the Presidential Secretariat's YouTube, Monday, 21 June.

The targets of the judicial operation are individual and community activities in locations or places that cause crowds and have the potential to violate health protocols.

"Such as in public facilities, restaurants, cafes, settlements, public sports venues, in malls, and tourist attractions," said Ganip.

Not only that, the COVID-19 Task Force also made restrictions and efforts to reduce mobility by implementing the Micro Community Activity Restriction (PPKM) program.

"We are limiting and reducing mobility from upstream to handling COVID-19, namely the implementation of the Micro PPKM program," he said.

As previously reported, the recent increase in active COVID-19 cases has put Indonesia in a bad state. Corona cases in the country have experienced a drastic increase, the highest since the end of January 2021.

The COVID-19 Task Force noted that as of June 19, Indonesia contributed 22,350 active cases of COVID-19 in the last six days. The Task Force regrets that active cases have increased dramatically after declining in February 2021.

"Starting on June 18, Indonesia's active cases have been above the world average, so now we are at 6.87 percent, the world is only 6.5 percent. While our recovery rate is at 90.38 percent while the world is 91, 33 percent," said the Head of Data and Information Technology of the COVID-19 Handling Task Force, Dewi Nur Aisyah at the Coordination Meeting of the COVID-19 Task Force, Sunday, June 20.

"So if we look at the last 16 days, there has been a continuous increase from June 3 to June 19 with an increase of 41,300 active cases or an increase of 43.7 percent," he continued.