People Begin To Ignore Health Protocols, Jokowi Goes To The Governor: We Have To Work Hard, Work Hardly

President of the Republic of Indonesia Joko Widodo (Photo: Setkab)

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) highlighted the decreasing number of community compliance in implementing health protocols. This was conveyed in a limited meeting of the COVID-19 Pandemic Handling and the Vaccination Implementation Plan at the State Palace, Jakarta.

"From the survey we conducted, currently there is less disciplinary motivation towards public health protocols. Wearing masks, maintaining distance, washing hands is less," Jokowi said at the meeting as quoted from the Presidential Secretariat YouTube account, Wednesday, January 6.

So he asked the governors who attended the meeting to pay more attention to the problem of decreasing the discipline of health protocols. Do not let the incidents that occur in a number of other countries such as Japan, England, and Thailand that have to carry out regional quarantine or lockdown because an increase in cases has actually occurred in Indonesia.

"Therefore, we must work hard, work really hard so that 3T and 3M can be done in the field, once again in the field," he said.

Furthermore, on that occasion, Jokowi also ensured that the government's strategy in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic was still the same, namely focusing on matters of handling health, social protection issues, and economic recovery. However, to do this, especially in the economic recovery sector, all parties must work harder in dealing with the problem of virus transmission.

"The key to economic recovery, the key is how we can try hard, work hard in order to stop and control COVID-19," he said.

As previously reported, Doni Monardo, the head of the Task Force for the Handling of COVID-19, had also touched on the decline in discipline to the health protocol. He even asked all local governments to issue a budget to reactivate the COVID-19 post at all levels, from RT, RW, to urban village levels.

"Please be pleased with the Regent, Mayor, and Governor to be able to allocate funds for the availability of posko, starting from the provincial level to at least the sub-district level. Thankfully if the budget is sufficient it can reach RT and RW levels," said Doni in his statement, Tuesday, January 5.

Doni said there was a decrease in public discipline regarding 3M's health protocols, such as washing hands with soap, wearing masks and maintaining distance, and avoiding crowds.

Based on the results of field monitoring and the application of Bersatu Against COVID-19, it is known that only 20.6 percent of the people are obedient to wearing masks and 16.9 are obedient in maintaining distance and avoiding crowds. This data is accumulated as of December 27, 2020, from 512 districts / cities. Monitoring is carried out on hundreds of millions of people from thousands of reporters.