Vice President Reminds Sri Sultan Do Not Let Yogyakarta Not Absorb Budget

JAKARTA - Vice President Ma'ruf Amin reminded Yogyakarta Governor Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono X that all regencies and cities in the province absorb the COVID-19 budget. regencies, cities with low budget use," said Vice President Ma'ruf Amin as quoted by Antara, Thursday, July 29. The vice president also asked Sri Sultan and the Yogyakarta Provincial Government to accelerate the absorption of the COVID-19 handling budget in the area. in handling COVID-19, with assistance from the BPKP (Financial and Development Supervisory Agency), the Prosecutor's Office, the National Police and LKPP (Government Service Procurement Policy Institute)," he emphasized. asked Sri Sultan to work harder in dealing with COVID-19 in the area. "The number of testing in DIY Province is already above standard, but the positivity rate is still far above the WHO standard of 5 percent. DIY's positivity rate is still at 41 percent," said the Vice President. Meanwhile, Sri Sultan said the condition of the positive and negative number of COVID-19 cases in Yogyakarta was very unstable. Although the number of positive cases in Yogyakarta was still high, Sri Sultan denied that the condition this is still below the positive figure for other regions on the island of Java. "Indeed, the positive has increased sharply. Even though the number of people in Java may be affected, it is much smaller than other provinces in Java," said Sri Sultan.

Sri Sultan also said that the community movement in Yogyakarta was quite good at protecting the surrounding environment from COVID-19 transmission. He said there was a Citizens Guard Movement which aims to remind the community to obey health protocols. "In every village, Jaga Warga is the community's own initiative to maintain the security of the kelurahan. But in this context (pandemic), we encourage them to maintain shelter, remind because they don't wear masks or they don't stay at home but they are still nonggo (neighbors)," he said.