Only A Few Jabodetabek People Do Physical Distancing

Illustrations (Irfan Meidianto / VOI)

JAKARTA - The Kedai Kopi survey institute released their survey regarding the corona virus pandemic or COVID-19 in the Jabodetabek area. As a result, from 405 respondents, only 12.3 percent carried out the government's recommendation to carry out physical distancing or maintain distance to reduce transmission of the virus.

According to the Executive Director of the survey agency Kedai Kopi Kunto Adi Wibowo, 34.1 percent of people in Jabodetabek know that around them there are people who are Patients Under Supervision (PDP) and positive patients with COVID-19.

It's just that, when asked about the important efforts they have made to anticipate the spread of the virus, only 32.6 percent of people regularly wash their hands and 25.7 people still choose to stay at home.

"Meanwhile, 25.4 percent chose to use masks and only 12.3 percent did physical distancing or kept their distance. ... I think the hand washing campaign with soap and at home is not enough to influence the behavior of people in Jabodetabek," said Adi. in an online discussion that airs on YouTube, Wednesday, April 22.

The survey, which was conducted on April 14-19, noted that 2.28 percent of respondents still believe in the myth that Indonesians are immune to the corona virus in the Greater Jakarta area. That number is drastically reduced from the previous survey. According to Kunto, the survey, which was conducted on March 3-4, recorded that as many as 4.29 respondents believed in this myth.

Meanwhile, with regard to Large-Scale Social Restrictions (PSBB), people in the Jabodetabek area have called this policy effective. Transportation restrictions and the closure of public facilities are considered the most effective implementation of the PSBB.

Furthermore, the activities of the PSBB to limit religious activities were considered by Jabodetabek residents to be the least effective of the restrictions.

Meanwhile, Chairman of the Indonesian Doctors Association (IDI) Daeng Faqih regretted the low level of public participation in taking these precautionary measures.

According to him, in order for the public to carry out preventive measures for COVID-19 and carry out the PSBB regulations, it should be supervised by law enforcement officials. Because it is evident from the survey, without supervision, the number of people who care about preventing is not high.

"PSBB feels like if it is left to the community's understanding, it is very low. 20 percent wash hands, stay at home 20 percent. It's sad if only the understanding is left to the community. PSBB must be disciplined, you can't just rely on community participation," said Daeng in the discussion .

Regarding the importance of physical distancing and washing hands, the government, through its spokesperson, Achmad Yurianto, always reminds us of this whenever he delivers information about the number of COVID-19 cases.

"The disease COVID-19 is transmitted through saliva or droplets that come out of the sick when he speaks, coughs, or sneezes. It reaches a distance of about one to 1.5 meters. More easily, it should be at least two meters. Well, these two meters. which must be guarded, "said Yurianto some time ago.

Not only maintaining distance, Yurianto said that people should regularly wash their hands with soap and running water. In addition, using a cloth mask when traveling is a must.

Masks, said Yuri, not only protect users from the spread of droplets or body fluids that can spread COVID-19 but can also protect other people around the users. Moreover, recently many people have contracted this virus but did not show any symptoms, so they are called People Without Symptoms (OTG).

"My mask protects you, your mask protects me. Once again this is what we have to do. My mask protects you, and your mask protects me," he said.

"Make sure we are not infected and do not infect. Let's disseminate it and carry out the use of masks," he added.

Previously reported, until Wednesday, April 22, the number of positive confirmed cases has increased as many as 283 patients today. The total number of positive patients to date is 7,418 cases.

Even so, there was good news received. The number of recovered cases has outperformed the death cases. There were an additional 71 patients recovered, bringing the total to 913 patients. Meanwhile, 19 patients died, bringing it to 635 patients.

The highest distribution of recovered patients was in DKI with 322 people, East Java with 101 people, South Sulawesi 75 people, West Java 79 people, Central Java 54 people.

The increase in the number also occurred in patient data under surveillance (PDP) with a total of 17,754 people. Meanwhile, cases of people under monitoring (ODP) increased to 193,571.