JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) is evaluating the imposition of restrictions on community activities (PPKM). Jokowi bluntly said the policy was ineffective. Even the implementation tends to be vague and consistent.
"I want to convey that related to PPKM on January 11 to 25, we have to say what it is. This is not effective. Mobility is still high. Because we have a mobility index, there is also a rise in some of the COVID-19 provinces," he said, when closed meeting at the Bogor Palace, broadcast via the Presidential Secretariat YouTube, on Sunday, 31 January.
The former governor of DKI Jakarta asked his aides to involve epidemiologists when drafting policies related to handling the COVID-19 pandemic in the country. Jokowi assessed that the implementation of the PPKM policy has not been good.
"In fact, the essence of PPKM is to limit mobility, that's just a limitation of community activities. But what I see is that in its implementation we are not firm and inconsistent. This is just a matter of implementation," he said.
Jokowi also asked his assistants to really take to the field and be in the field. The goal is to be ready to handle the pandemic problem from below. One of them is by means of more practical and simple ways so that people know what 3M means or wear a mask, keep their distance and wash their hands.
"Also prepare masks that have the right standards, so that people who do not wear are given and notified of anything. This should work as simple as possible but it really is on the ground in the provinces we have agreed on," he said.
Not only that, Jokowi also reminded that the implementation of this PPKM could make Indonesia's economy decline. However, he said, this was fine, as long as the number of COVID-19 cases had also decreased.
"Second, be careful there is a PPKM economy going down. Actually it's okay, as long as COVID-19 has also dropped. But this is not. In my opinion, try to look at it again, please really calculate it, calculate it so that we get a formula," he said. .
Even so, Jokowi said that not a single country has a standard formula for handling the COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, there is no correct formula.
"Other countries also do not exist, what standard formulas do not exist, which ones are not correct, the lockdown is also responsive," he explained.
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