For Bekasi Residents, There Is No Reason For Refusing The COVID-19 Vaccine

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JAKARTA - Residents of Bekasi Regency, West Java, are threatened with a fine if they refuse to be vaccinated against COVID-19 based on the Bekasi Regency Regional Regulation (Perda) Number 8 of 2020 which was passed at the end of last December.

"There is no reason to refuse to be vaccinated, especially since the POM has also approved the emergency use permit for a vaccine from one of the companies producing the COVID-19 vaccine," said Bekasi DPRD Chairman BN Holik Qodratulloh in Cikarang, Monday.

Holik said that one of the contents of Perda 8/2020 regulates the imposition of administrative sanctions for violations of the implementation of health protocols in the context of handling and overcoming COVID-19.

"In the chapter on sanctions, it is explained that those who refuse vaccines are subject to a fine of Rp. 100,000 for individuals and Rp. 1 million for corporations or institutions," he said.

Secretary of Commission IV DPRD Bekasi Regency Rusdi Haryadi asked the public to comply with the policies contained in the regional regulation so that the spread of the corona virus can be controlled.

"Until whenever this line of life will not run normally while the trend of increasing cases continues to increase in Bekasi Regency. Vaccination is a solution to this problem. Therefore, I invite people to want to be vaccinated. As a state official I am also ready to be vaccinated," he said. .

Rusdi also asked the local government to immediately make a derivative regulation in the form of a Bekasi Regent (Perbup) Regulation in order to have legal force.

"In the enforcement later, it is necessary to make derivative regulations in the form of a backup to be more detailed and specific," he said.

He stated that law enforcers could impose heavier sanctions on violations of the policy in question considering that the sanctions imposed in Perda 8/2020 are relatively light.

"In later enforcement, it remains only to law enforcers who want to use the regulation on the regulation or not. They could even use the Health Quarantine Act or the Contagious Disease Outbreak Act. If you use this law, you could be subject to criminal sanctions," he said.