Survey: 63 Percent Of Society Disagrees That Motorbikes Are Not Allowed To Carry A Ride During The PSBB

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JAKARTA - As many as 87.6 percent of the public admitted to agreeing with the implementation of Large-Scale Social Restrictions (PSBB) to prevent the spread of the corona virus or COVID-19. It's just that, there are some derivative rules that are not approved by the community.

This amount was obtained from the results of a survey by Saiful Mujani Research & Consulting (SMRC) which was conducted from April 9 to April 12. This survey involved 1,200 respondents via random telephone interviews with a margin of error of 2.9 percent.

"The majority of the public as many as 87.6 percent agree with the rules in Large-Scale Social Restrictions (PSBB)," said SMRC researcher Sirajuddin Abbas in a written statement, Friday, April 17.

Of this figure, as many as 39 percent of the community agreed on the provision of fines or imprisonment for violators. Meanwhile, the other 31.2 percent did not agree with the punishment.

Then, related to the derivative rules in the PSBB, as many as 86 percent of the community supported the issue of reducing private car passengers.

"Meanwhile, those who received the lowest approval from the residents were the rules that motorbikes were not allowed to ride a ride," he explained, adding that those who disagreed, the figure reached 63 percent.

Furthermore, the rules for online motorcycle taxis that cannot carry passengers also received negative reactions from the public, because 66 percent disagreed with these rules.

"This means there are 34 to 37 percent who object to the rule that motorbikes are not allowed to ride," he said.

In addition, 21 percent of the community did not approve of the PSBB regulation requiring worship activities at home and regionally, the percentage of residents who refused to carry out religious activities at home came from West Java Province.

"Only 54 percent of West Java residents agree that religious activities can be carried out at home only. Meanwhile, for activities working from home, nationally there are 76 residents who support it, while in West Java only 54 percent support these activities," he said.

Meanwhile, for homecoming activities, considering that the homecoming season will soon take place, SMRC noted that 31 percent of residents will return to their hometowns when Eid. As for the national results, people who want to go home to reach 11 percent or the equivalent of 20 million adults.

If previously the government said that those who wanted to go home were the average people affected economically due to the spread of this virus, this is different from the SMRCM data. Data from the SMCR stated that those from higher education and high-income backgrounds also wanted to go home.

So, reflecting on the high desire to go home and it turns out that it is not only targeting people affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, SMRC then asks that massive education be carried out and there must be strict rules regarding these activities.

As for PSBB and awareness about the dangers of COVID-19, SMRC noted that in general West Java residents have a lower awareness of the dangers of this disease compared to other regions. This is proven by the low level of community support for the existing regulations when the PSBB was implemented.

"The people of West Java have the lowest support for the rules in the PSBB. So, more intensive education about the dangers of COVID-19 and the implementation of PSBB needs to be carried out for people in West Java," he said.

With regard to the PSBB, currently, Minister of Health (Menkes) Terawan Agus Putranto has approved the imposition of such restrictions in 11 regions since the Public Health Emergency status was implemented on 31 March.

The 11 regions are DKI Jakarta Province; West Java Province, Bogor City / Regency, Depok City, and Bekasi City / Regency; Tangerang Raya covering the Regency / City of Tangerang, and South Tangerang; Pekanbaru City; and Makassar City.

For Makassar City, the PSBB proposal submitted by the Mayor of Makassar was approved by the Minister of Health on April 16 through the Decree of the Minister of Health Number HK.01.07 / Menkes / 257/2020.

When an area has received the PSBB status, they carry out school and work vacations, restrictions on religious, socio-cultural activities, activities in public places or facilities, restrictions on transportation modes, and other activities specifically related to defense and security aspects.

School and workplace vacations are exempted for strategic offices or agencies that provide services related to defense and security, public order, food needs, fuel oil and gas, health services, economy, finance, communications, industry, export and import, distribution, logistics, and other basic necessities.

Restrictions on places or public facilities are exempted for supermarkets, minimarkets, markets, shops or places for the sale of medicines and medical equipment for food, staple goods, essential goods, fuel oil, gas and energy.

Restrictions on transportation modes are exempted for passenger transportation modes, both public and private, by taking into account the number of passengers and maintaining the distance between passengers, as well as modes of transportation of goods by taking into account the fulfillment of the basic needs of the population.