This Is The Result Of Jokowi's Meeting With 5 Governors Including Anies And Ganjar

Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin / Special

JAKARTA - Minister of Health (Menkes) Budi Gunadi Sadikin said that the government had discussed with regional heads to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. Namely by summoning five regional heads to the State Palace.

In this discussion, President Joko Widodo emphasized regional heads emulate the handling of COVID-19 in China and India.

"China can cope with this pandemic, India can cope with the pandemic, and several cities in the 5 Governors can turn out to be able to overcome this pandemic. Our conclusion 1, the way to deal with this pandemic is to reduce the rate of transmission", Budi said in an online press conference. on the Presidential Secretariat YouTube account, Thursday, February 4.

Reducing the rate of transmission of COVID-19 in the community, he said, is important so as to reduce the burden on health facilities and prepare a vaccination program.

"The main mission of fighting this pandemic is to reduce the rate of transmission", he said.

Furthermore, from the discussions with these regional heads, there have actually been several programs that have actually been carried out, starting from Jogo Tonggo, Kampung Resilient, to the Alert Village program.

All of these programs, he said, had been carried out in a number of districts, municipalities, and villages and were deemed appropriate to reduce the rate of virus transmission.

"This is a very good and very precise epidemic handling initiative, which can balance between improving the health sector by reducing the rate of transmission and also maintaining how people can still live normally", he concluded.

Meanwhile, Jokowi summoned five regional heads to discuss PPKM. The five governors in question are DKI Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan, West Java Governor Ridwan Kamil, Central Java Governor Ganjar Pranowo, Bali Governor I Wayan Koster, and Yogyakarta Governor Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono X.

This was done because even though the PPKM was implemented, the number of positive cases of COVID-19 was still high.