Ribka Tjiptaming Relocated From Commission IX DPR Because Of Criticism Of Vaccines? This Is The PDIP Explanation

Member of Commission IX DPR from the PDIP faction Ribka Tjiptaning stated that he refused the COVID-19 vaccination in the RDP at the DPR with the Minister of Health, January 12 (YouTube DPR RI)

JAKARTA - Member of the DPR RI from the PDI-P Faction (PDIP) Ribka Tjiptaming was transferred from Commission IX to Commission VII. Rebekah's move was right after she declared that she did not want to be vaccinated against COVID-19 and preferred to pay a fine.

The transfer was based on a letter from the PDIP DPR faction Number 04 / F-PDIP / DPR-RI / I / 2021 dated January 18.

Through this letter, Ribka, who was assigned to Commission IX in charge of health and employment, was transferred to Commission VII in charge of energy, research, technology and the environment.

Secretary of the PDIP faction of the DPR RI, Bambang Wuryanto, confirmed this move. It's just that, he called this faction displacement an ordinary rotation even though there were certain reasons.

"This is an ordinary rotation. But every political decision has an argument, which of course the argument is supported by facts," Bambang told reporters, Tuesday, January 19.

In addition, he also advised the fraction members who were transferred to conduct introspection. "All parties affected by the rotation are welcome to retrospect and introspect," he said.

Apart from Ribka, there were a number of other names that the commission moved by the PDIP faction leader, namely Johan Budi Sapto Pribowo from Commission II to Commission III, Marinus Gea from Commission III to Commission XI, and Ihsan Yunus from Deputy Chair of Commission VIII to become a member of Commission II.

As for the last name mentioned, it was widely reported that he was related to the suspected COVID-19 social assistance bribery (bansos) case in Jabodetabek that ensnared former Social Minister Juliari Peter Batubara.

Ihsan's parents' house, which is located at Jalan Raya Hankam Number 72 Cipayung, East Jakarta, has also been ransacked by KPK investigators some time ago.

Previously reported, Ribka Tjiptaning emphasized that he refused the COVID-19 vaccine. Ms. Ning, as she is called, prefers to pay a fine if sanctioned for refusing the COVID-19 vaccination.

"Second, the problem of vaccines, I still don't want to be vaccinated. I still don't want to be vaccinated, I want to be vaccinated for up to 63 years, I am 63. In Jakarta, all my children and grandchildren (if) get sanctions of Rp. 5 million, I better pay, sell, sell cars, grandpa. How does Bio Farma still say that it hasn't been a third clinical trial and so on, "said Ribka Tjiptaning in a DPR Commission IX working meeting with Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin, Head of BPOM and Managing Director of Bio Farma which was broadcast via YouTube DPR RI, Tuesday, January 12.

Not without reason, this PDIP politician Mbak Ning refuses the COVID-19 vaccination. Ribka Tjiptaning has experience with other vaccines that have brought disadvantages.

“My experience is the minister's brother, I will speak again at the meeting, the polio vaccine has even paralyzed it in Sukabumi. Then the anti-elephant leg in Majalaya died 12, because in India it was rejected, in Africa it was rejected. I entered Indonesia Rp. 1.3 trillion when I was chairman of the commission. I really remember that, don't play with vaccines, I refuse vaccines, if forced to do human rights, it violates human rights. You can't force that, "said Ribka firmly in front of the Minister of Health.