Tanah Abang Market Makes Crowds To Abandon Health Protocol, The COVID-19 Task Force Will Arrange Market Visitors In Jakarta

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JAKARTA - A video showing Tanah Abang Market, Central Jakarta, is packed with viral visitors on social media. In this video, visitors can be seen crammed without following health protocols.

Anticipating this, the Provincial Government of DKI Jakarta then responds quickly by coordinating with each leader of Perumda Pasar Jaya. This action aims to ensure that market managers, including Tanah Abang Market, can tighten supervision so that the rate of active COVID-19 cases can be systematically controlled.

This supervision will be carried out by the COVID-19 Task Force. This aims to keep the economic activities running but visitors can still comply with health protocols.

"We will anticipate all potential spikes inactive cases, such as activities in every market leading up to Eid. From today onwards, we will place a COVID-19 task force to manage visitors and curb health protocol violators", said the Regional Secretary of DKI Jakarta Province Marullah Matali in his written statement, which was quoted on Sunday, May 2.

In addition, anyone who violates the COVID-19 prevention health protocol will certainly not be allowed to enter the market area.

"In essence, every visitor is prohibited from entering the market area if he is not wearing a mask", he said.

Meanwhile, the Director of Perumda Pasar Jaya, Arief Nasrudin, explained that his party would evaluate the supervision and rearrange various steps to curb visitors in each market, especially Tanah Abang Market.

"We will move fast, and there will be no bargaining regarding the implementation of the health protocol. We emphasize that there is no prohibition on shopping in the market. We will only rearrange the surveillance scheme so that there will be no crowds that have the potential to create new clusters in the market area", Arief Nasrudin.

He also emphasized that he would regulate technical supervision related to the number of officers to be placed in each market. This is done so that there are no loopholes and opportunities for health protocol violators to occur because DKI Jakarta is struggling to reduce the spread of COVID-19.

"We emphasize that there is zero-tolerance for traders and visitors who violate the rules of the process when entering the market. This is not only in Tanah Abang, but throughout the market, we will act against those who violate it", he concluded.