Regarding The PPKM Signal Stopped At The End Of 2022, Coordinating Minister Airlangga: We Evaluate, The President Who Is Generalized

Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs, Airlangga Hartarto. (Doc of the Coordinating Ministry for the Economy)

Coordinating Minister for the Economy Airlangga Hartarto said the government's policy of limiting community activities (PPKM) would be evaluated in the near future. This was conveyed by him regarding the news that PPKM would be stopped at the end of 2022.

"We will evaluate it in 1-2 days," said Airlangga at the Jakarta Presidential Palace on Wednesday, December 28.

Airlangga conveyed this was a Limited Meeting related to PPKM led by President Joko Widodo.

"The President will announce it himself later," said Airlangga.

Previously, President Jokowi said a study from all coordinating ministers and health ministers regarding the possibility of stopping the PPKM would be completed by the end of December and a decision would be made.

The study included a survey series, namely a study aimed at seeing the population in Indonesia that already has antibodies to COVID-19.

"The results of the study are still in the third week of January," said Airlangga.

Airlangga also did not confirm whether the PPKM would be stopped by the end of December 2022 or continue until 2023.

"We'll just have to wait, wait for the day," said Airlangga.

Based on the report of the COVID-19 Handling Task Force, the pandemic in Indonesia has been under control, which is marked by community activities that can be carried out as before the pandemic hit.

As of December 27, 2022, until 12.00 WIB, it showed that positive cases had increased by 803 cases, bringing the total to 6,717,395 cases and while active cases fell, there were 16,575 cases remaining.

The recovery rate also continued to rise, increasing by 1,692 people to 6,540,260 people. However, the death toll also increased by 9 to 160,560 people.

The trend of daily confirmed cases of COVID-19 is said to have decreased drastically to below 2,000 cases of COVID-19 per day.

However, Indonesia is surrounded by high COVID-19 infections that occur in neighboring countries in Asia such as China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Australia. Japan, for example, is now reporting cases of infection reaching around 1.1 million per week, China also reports that at least 500 thousand cases are found every day.