Government Will Open 100 Percent Offices, Minister Ida: Mandatory Use PeduliLindung, This Application Becomes A Vital Instrument

Indonesian Minister of Manpower, Ida Fauziyah. (Photo: Doc. Ministry of Manpower)

JAKARTA - The government is preparing to implement a 100 percent work from office (WFO) health protocol, as COVID-19 cases continue to decline. Minister of Manpower Ida Fauziyah said later when WFO is allowed, all offices must use the PeduliLindung application.

Furthermore, said Ida, the PeduliLindung application is used to monitor the activities of all workers in the company when 100 percent WFO has been allowed to run.

"This application will be a vital instrument for the 100 percent work implementation process in several companies. Mainly to monitor the implementation of work activities in companies," he said in the dialogue on Joint Efforts to Break the COVID-19 Pandemic and Awakening the Apindo National Coordination Meeting, Tuesday, August 24.

Furthermore, Ida said the PeduliLindung application is real-time, integrated, and directly stored in big data at the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology.

Not only is it mandatory to use the PeduliLindung application, Ida said, the condition for the office to be able to carry out WFO 100 percent is that all workers must have received an injection of the COVID-19 vaccine. Therefore, the company must accelerate the vaccination of its workers.

"Other efforts at this time must accelerate the vaccination program, because this will be the main prerequisite for work for all workers. So all of these workers must get vaccinated," he said.

For your information, companies can access the COVID-19 vaccine for workers through the Gotong Royong vaccination initiated by the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin). In the first batch of 500,000 vaccinations have been carried out. The location for the first phase is in Jabodetabek with the target of manufacturing industrial workers.

The second stage of Gotong Royong vaccination has also been underway, targeting vaccine recipients from the banking and financial services industry. This program continues to be promoted considering that there are 28,400 companies that have registered.

The regulations regarding the implementation of the program have been regulated in the Regulation of the Minister of Health (Permenkes) Number 10 of 2021 concerning the Implementation of Vaccination in the Context of Combating the COVID-19 Pandemic.