COVID-19 In Indonesia Is Crazy, Luhut Says There Are Leaders Who Don't Set Good Examples, Who?

Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan. (Photo: Doc. Kemenko Marves)

JAKARTA - Cases of COVID-19 in the country have recently soared. Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment Luhut Pandjaitan spoke about this. According to him, this spike in cases is not only the fault of one party, but all parties including the leader.

Therefore, Luhut assessed that the government and the public must both be introspective in responding to the increase in COVID-19 cases that occurred after the 2021 Eid holiday.

According to Luhut, the government has given an appeal not to go home, but there are still many who insist on going home. In fact, said Luhut, the government had asked to stay at home to avoid a spike in cases.

"It's our fault that there are so many people, the government has asked us to stay at home, not to go home, yesterday we were busy and this is now the fruit. So we all have to reflect," he said in a virtual press conference, Tuesday, June 15.

Officials don't set a good example

Moreover, said Luhut, the increase in COVID-19 cases was also due to leaders not setting a good example for the community in preventing the transmission of the virus. But unfortunately, he did not explain who the leader he meant.

"If we as leaders don't set an example, the impact is like now, there are many victims directly or indirectly due to our own actions," he said.

In addition, Luhut also asked the public to be concerned about the explosion in the positive number of COVID-19. In addition, he also appealed to the public to be aware of the new variant of COVID-19 from India that had entered Indonesia and was estimated to be more virulent.

"The exponential increase (active cases) with the entry of this Indian variant," he said.

For your information, the number of COVID-19 after the long Eid holiday continues to rise. In 24 hours from Monday to Tuesday 15 June, the Task Force for Handling COVID-19 recorded 8,189 daily confirmed positive cases. Thus, the accumulation of positive cases in the country increased to 1,919,547 cases.

The province with the most additional cases was DKI Jakarta with 2,722 cases. While the total cases reached 450,793. Then, West Java with 1,532 new cases and 330,472 cumulative cases. Then, Central Java with 1,400 new cases added and the total number of cases was 217,084.

The increase in cases has reduced the hospital's capacity. Data from the Ministry of Health recorded at least 17 districts/cities with bed occupancy rates (BOR) isolation and intensive care for COVID-19 patients at 80 percent to 100 percent.

Meanwhile, the BOR for intensive care is above 80 percent. Meanwhile, 21 regencies/cities with isolation BOR above 80 percent.