TNI Soldiers Hand Down To Discipline Citizens

JAKARTA - Discipline and TNI. Two words that cannot be separated. The phrase of discipline is also the key so that this nation can quickly control and reduce the rate of corona virus cases.

Hence, TNI Commander Marshal Hadi Tjahjanto will deploy TNI and Polri troops at 1,800 points in four provinces and 25 districts / cities to discipline the public in implementing health protocols to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

"The objects are public traffic places, malls, public markets, tourism places and from the existing data in 4 provinces and 25 districts / cities there are 1,800 objects that we will carry out the discipline," said Hadi Tjahjanto at the station. MRT, Hotel Indonesia Roundabout, Jakarta, Tuesday, May 26.

Hadi, together with the National Police Chief, General Pol Idham Azis and the Governor of DKI Jakarta Anies Baswedan were here while accompanying President Jokowi. The entourage came there to review the readiness to implement the new normal standard procedure in public facilities at the MRT Station Roundabout Hotel Indonesia, Central Jakarta.

"In this first phase, we will implement it in four places; DKI Jakarta, especially in the HI Roundabout, then in the Bekasi area, in West Java, West Sumatra and Gorontalo," added Hadi.

According to Hadi, the disciplinary health protocol will be carried out in stages. The implementation of discipline, for example, is to ensure that residents who come to these places wear masks.

"What we do is first have to keep an eye on our entire community to keep wearing masks, secondly we have to maintain a safe distance in activities, then we provide a place to wash our hands or 'hand sanitizer', hopefully with this activity the first stage can run well," he explained. he.

In the first phase, the TNI-Polri plan will arrange the capacity of these public places so that they will only be filled with half the visitors. Starting from the mall or place to eat will be under the supervision of the TNI.

"In the first stage, we will arrange the mall with a capacity of 1,000 (people), maybe we will allow it for 500 (people) only and we will supervise it, then the place to eat should be 500 (people) only 200 (people)," said Hadi.

Later, TNI and Polri troops will cooperate with local governments including coordinating with task forces in each province, district and city.

"Hopefully what we want all the people to stay active but still safe from COVID-19, therefore I ask for the support of all colleagues for the successful implementation of the health protocol discipline. Hopefully the 4 provinces and 25 districts / cities. R0 can drop to 0.7 to the bottom, which is better, "he explained.

Reported from Antara, R0 or "reproduction number" is the expected number of second cases resulting from one patient who has the ability to transmit the disease when a disease enters a healthy population during the infection period.

For example the case of COVID-19 in an area that has R0 = 2, meaning that 1 person affected by COVID-19 has the potential to transmit the virus to 2 other healthy people. With R0 = 2, the number of people affected by COVID-19 after 8 rounds of the answer is that there will be 256 positive people for COVID-19 and after 10 rounds, that number will be 2,048 people. Areas that can perform activities in the "new normal" or new normal scheme if R0 is less than 1.