In The Next 1-2 Weeks, The Government Will Revoke The Status Of The Pandemic, Jokowi: The Consequences Of COVID-19 Sickness Pay

Screenshot - Indonesian President Joko Widodo delivered directions while attending the decade anniversary of the Jokowi Volunteer Barisan Sympatisan President/ANTARA

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo reminded the public that handling COVID-19 patients is no longer free or borne by the government if there has been a change in status from a pandemic to an endemic. This was conveyed by Jokowi while attending the commemoration of a decade of the Jokowi President Volunteers Front (Bara JP) in Bogor City, West Java, Sunday, June 18. Jokowi said, in the next one to two weeks the government will declare an endemic status for COVID-19. "This is careful when it comes to endemic if you get COVID-19, pay. Currently it is still borne by the government, once it enters the endemic — don't applaud first — have COVID-19 to pay. That consequence," Jokowi said as quoted by Antara, Monday, June 18. On the same occasion, Jokowi also had time to reveal that handling COVID-19 was the toughest job he had faced during his reign. Previously, President Jokowi stated that he had decided that Indonesia would immediately enter the status of the COVID-19 endemic on the consideration of the daily number of cases and the sloping active cases of COVID-19 and the wide coverage of COVID-19 vaccination. "We have decided to enter the endemic, but when it is announced, (this) has only been finalized, within a week, two weeks," said Jokowi after opening the National Coordination Meeting (Rakornas) for Government Internal Supervision in 2023 in Jakarta, Wednesday (14/6). Meanwhile, Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture (Menko PMK) Muhadjir Effendy said the Government agreed with the decision of the World Health Organization (WHO) which had revoked its COVID-19 emergency status on May 5, 2023. Therefore, Muhadjir said the Government would immediately complete the transition from the pandemic to the COVID-19 endemic in Indonesia. With the end of the transition period from pandemic to endemic, Muhadjir said the COVID-19 Handling Task Force would be disbanded. The COVID-19 vaccine will also be given by the Government in a normal service scheme and including in ordinary infectious diseases. Muhadjir also said that the COVID-19 vaccination for the community would be borne by the Government through the Health Social Security Administering Agency (BPJS), especially for the poor who were unable to receive Contribution Assistance (PBI).