Police Intervene To Check Swab Results Without Viral Tests At Soekarno-Hatta Airport

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JAKARTA - A video on social media shows a woman's confession about her experience of getting a negative COVID-19 result letter, even though she has not undergone a swab test.

Based on the video uploaded by the TikTok account @jessicasugiharta, the incident occurred at the COVID-19 Drive-Thru checkpoint at Soekarno-Hatta Airport.

Responding to this, the Head of Criminal Investigation Unit of the Soekarno-Hatta Airport Police Commissioner Alexander Yurikho will investigate further to find out what happened.

"Investigators from the Soekarno-Hatta Airport Police Criminal Investigation Unit will clarify and confirm to find out how the truth is", he told VOI, Saturday, January 30.

It was previously known that the owner of the TikTok account @jessicasugiharta together with two people were undergoing a COVID-19 swab test. But unfortunately when they were at the location, only one of them got out of the car and approached the checkpoint.

Then, the officers asked for their identity cards as a condition for undergoing the swab test. After they were identified, one person who had previously headed back to the post and they were waiting in the car.

"I did the test at Terminal 3 Soekarno-Hatta Airport. So when I came, one person just got out of the car to his post. So he asked for ID cards, three of us. Then after giving ID cards, he told me to pay IDR 200 thousand for one person. Then after that, I was told to wait in the car, so the three of us waited in the car", quoted from the woman's Tik Tok account @jessicasugiharta, Saturday, January 30.

After waiting for a while, the officer approached the woman's car. Furthermore, the identity cards of the three were returned along with letters that were initially mistaken for forms to be filled out.

"Then when I waited for about 15 or 20 minutes, I don't really know. Then I was accompanied by people wearing PPE clothes. Then they gave back our ID cards", she said

"I thought I was told to fill in the paper because it was my first time doing swab test. Then when I saw it, it turned out that it was the swab test result, the person had left. Then I thought it might be written negative if for example I was crossed out positive, I think so," she continued.

It's just that what happened, the officer did not know if the woman and her two colleagues had not undergone a swab test. But they have received the negative COVID-19 swab results.

"Then I waited for another 10 minutes until finally, I got out of the car, I asked if we didn't do the test, how come we got the results already. 'You haven't done the swab test?' he asked, and they took the paper," she said.