Vaccine Certificate Becomes A Mall Entrance Requirement, Entrepreneur: Potentially Lowers The Number Of Visitors, But This Is For Accelerating Vaccination

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JAKARTA - A number of parties have proposed that visitors to shopping centers or malls show a certificate of COVID-19 vaccine before entering the mall. The goal is that shopping centers can be opened and the retailers in them are back in operation.

Responding to this proposal, entrepreneurs who are members of the Indonesian Shopping Center Management Association (APPBI) welcome the proposal. This proposal is considered to be able to encourage Indonesia to achieve herd immunity or communal immunity.

APPBI Chairperson Alphonzus Widjaja said this proposal could also accelerate the COVID-19 vaccination program in the country. However, it is undeniable that this policy will potentially reduce the number of visitors.

"This is a good proposal and deserves consideration because it will encourage the acceleration of national vaccination which in the end will also accelerate the process of herd immunity," he said when contacted by VOI, Thursday, July 29.

Furthermore, Alphonzus said that by immediately achieving herd immunity, the crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic could also be overcome immediately.

"Of course, it is hoped that Indonesia will soon be able to get out of the health crisis that has been going on for more than a year and a half," he said.

According to Alphonzus, people don't need to worry about visiting shopping centers. Because most malls have become centers of COVID-19 vaccination.

"People can vaccinate while visiting shopping centers or visiting shopping centers while vaccinating," he said.

Chairman of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry Arsjad Rasjid. (Photo: Doc. Kadin)

Previously, the Chairman of Kadin Arsjad Rasjid proposed a vaccine certificate as a prerequisite for visiting shopping centers. After the vaccination program for mall employees and employees is carried out, visitors must also show that they have completed vaccinations.

"The hope is that the retailers, in malls, if possible, have vaccinated all workers in the mall, and if those present can show that they have been vaccinated, the hope is that the retail will continue to run," said Arsjad.