Ombudsman Advises Government To Be Honest And Announce PMK Emergency Immediately, Here's The Reason

Member of the Indonesian Ombudsman Yeka Hendra Fatika/Photo: Antara

JAKARTA - The Ombudsman of the Republic of Indonesia (ORI) asked the government to declare an emergency condition for foot and mouth disease (FMD) in livestock because the spread rate is relatively high. "The FMD outbreak has spread to 22 provinces. 17 provinces, within the next month, July 13, 2022, the PMK outbreak has spread to 22 provinces," said RI Ombudsman Member Yeka Hendra Fatika at a press conference in Jakarta, Thursday 14 July. has entered Indonesia in 2015. He assessed that the Agricultural Quarantine Agency formed by the government was slow in dealing with PMK. He also suspects that there is maladministration and neglect of legal obligations in handling FMD in livestock which has caused FMD cases to spread widely. Therefore, Yeka urges the government to declare an emergency so that all components of society move to help deal with the FMD outbreak. an integrated upstream-downstream solution approach, starting from the observation and identification, prevention, handling, eradication and treatment stages in accordance with the applicable regulations," he said.

Yeka further revealed that the relatively high morbidity (rate of infection) of the virus reaches 100 percent, causing a rapid and massive infection of all ruminant animals (except horses). will not return to its original productivity. The livestock business is disrupted and detrimental. Bad loans for breeders have increased, so export performance has been disrupted," he said. 140,321 recovered, 2,419 dead, 3,698 conditional slaughter, 220,102 not recovered, 476,650 vaccination coverage, and the number of cases in 22 provinces, for cattle, buffalo, goat, sheep, and pigs. experienced by cattle farmers is not less than Rp.788.81 billion.The Ombudsman is of the view that mitigation and future handling needs to be further improved considering the potential value of losses that continue to increase every day," he concluded.