JAKARTA - The government has reduced the PCR test rate by IDR 275 thousand for the Java-Bali area and IDR 300 thousand for outside Java-Bali. A few days later, the government actually removed the PCR test as a travel requirement. Surprisingly, at the beginning of the pandemic, everyone who was going to do a PCR test had to spend money starting from Rp. 900 thousand to Rp. 2.5 million.
The issue of the price of the PCR test was then judged not to be transparent. Law enforcement officials and the Business Competition Supervisory Commission (KPPU) were asked to intervene to investigate alleged crimes committed by PCR test suppliers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The former deputy chairman of the Gerindra Party, Arief Poyuono, considered what the company was doing was a serious crime. Because he suspects that he is taking up to 600 percent of profits. "Companies and business owners that provide PCR that take profits of up to 600 percent of their capital are very serious criminals at this time," said Arief in his statement, Tuesday, November 2.
According to him, law enforcement and the KPPU must step in because companies supplying PCR test kits have the heart to make a profit in the midst of a nation facing a pandemic emergency. In fact, Arief asked President Joko Widodo to firmly order law enforcement to arrest all PCR business actors. He emphasized that the perpetrators had no morals. "If there is no legal action against them, this could be a bad precedent for Jokowi's career as president who allows serious criminals when people need safety from the COVID-19 pandemic," said Arief. Arief said that KPPU as an institution that has the task of supervising business competition and monopolies must take immediate action. This way, he said, the public could clearly know that there was a crime committed by a PCR service provider.
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