Please Refrain From Going Home, You Can Make Friends Through Video Calls

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JAKARTA - Member of Commission IX of the DPR Saleh Partaonan Daulay invited the public to participate in efforts to control the spread of COVID-19 by complying with the ban on going home in 2021.

"We hope that we are in the second year, please protect ourselves from going home," said Saleh to VOI, Wednesday, April 21.

According to him, all parties must reconsider which ones have more benefits and which ones do not harm others. Don't let Indonesia have the same fate as India, which has experienced a surge in new COVID-19 cases.

"I think the homecoming culture is good, but in a pandemic situation it's a bit heavy so we have to weigh the benefits of going home or not going home. For now it seems more useful not going home. If you can use cellphones, video calls now, I think it can save costs. , "he explained.

The chairman of the DPR PAN faction asked the government to immediately socialize the technicality of the ban on going home. Also coordinating with the local government and the police to regulate and tighten supervision for travelers who are reckless.

"The government in making rules must be measured to be implemented. I heard that the sanction of Rp. 100 million should be reduced. If it is prohibited to go home, the Police and the Regional Government must guard the borders, so if there are people going home on the border, they should not come out," said Saleh.

Previously, the Coordinating Minister for Human and Cultural Empowerment (PMK) Muhadjir Effendy admitted that there were concerns that the government had about the 2021 homecoming activity that reflected last year.

According to him, there will still be travelers who are determined to travel. It is even predicted that the number of naughty homecomers reaches 13 percent of the 73-80 million people who usually do the Eid homecoming. Or there are around 10 million reckless travelers in the Eid 2021 period.

"And the 10 million is quite a scene. It is quite chaotic, twice the population of Singapore," Muhadjir said in his statement, Wednesday, April 21.

Therefore, Muhadjir said, his party was trying to find ways to minimize the number of residents who did not comply with the homecoming prohibition.

Muhadjir said, if the government did not impose a ban on going home, there would be around 73 million people traveling to their hometowns this year.

According to him, the government will not be able to enforce the discipline of the swab test as a condition of the road for 73 million travelers simultaneously.

"We are worried that there will be fake health certificates that will not be controlled. We are also worried that there will be unplanned crowds," he explained.