Close 59 Business Places Violating Emergency PPKM, Anies Threatens More Sanctions

JAKARTA - DKI Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan revealed that the DKI Provincial Government had carried out impromptu inspections (sidak) to 74 business places in Jakarta during the emergency PPKM period.

"Today, inspections were carried out at 74 locations in Jakarta. Of the 74 examined, 59 were closed," Anies said in a virtual press conference, Monday, July 5.

Anies felt the need to warn entrepreneurs to comply with the emergency PPKM rules. Only essential and critical business sectors may apply work from office. Meanwhile, other business sectors are required to work from home 100 percent.

If the place of business still persists in violating the capacity rules during the emergency PPKM, Anies threatened to impose a more severe sanction than the temporary closure, namely the revocation of the business license.

"The government has the authority not only to close but to revoke business licenses. If they continue to violate, they will be temporarily closed and their business licenses can be revoked," said Anies.

"This is done solely to protect all of us, residents of Jakarta, so that we can immediately be free from the COVID-19 pandemic, that the most dominant variant is delta, which transmits very quickly," he added.

Anies said that this employee restriction policy was not only limited to emptying roads to make traffic quiet with closures everywhere. Anies said the emergency PPKM implemented was an effort to save residents.

"I feel sorry for the employees if the company's leadership continues to force them to enter, even though it is not an essential sector," said Anies.

Therefore, Anies asked employees who work outside the essential and critical sectors but are still required to work in the office to report to the DKI Provincial Government.

"For employees who work in the non-essential sector and the company forces them to work, report it through JAKI. You report it there. Let our team act later," he said.