JAKARTA - Coordinating Minister for Political and Security Affairs (Menko Polhukam) Mahfud MD has asked the regional government to take steps to prevent the spread of the Omicron variant. JAKARTA - Menteri Koordinator Bidang Politik, Hukum, dan Keamanan (Menko Polhukam) Mahfud MD meminta pemerintah daerah untuk mengambil langkah-langkah pencegahan penyebaran varian Omicron.
The Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) said the El Nino phenomenon would begin in the third week of June, so good coordination is needed between all parties to be able to work harder in prevention efforts.
"Based on calculations and estimates from BMKG, El Nino will have started running from the third week of this month until the next, and this requires the same readiness that we both do harder to prevent forest and land fires," said Coordinating Minister Djamari as quoted by ANTARA, Thursday, June 18.
In addition, Djamari said the government would also implement strict evaluations of the performance of the apparatus and regional leaders in controlling karhutla.
He emphasized that the positions of related officials were at stake if they failed to carry out their duties in preventing and handling fires.
"It still applies (transfer of position), not only the Police Chief, the Police Chief, to the Commander of the Kodam, Danrem, it still risks his position, I reminded him," said Djamari.
Coordinating Minister Djamari assessed that the efforts to control the forest fire in recent times have shown positive developments. According to him, these achievements must be maintained and improved through solid cooperation.
"There has been progress from last year to now, there is one progress that we must maintain and even we must achieve better. Together to do this we have formed, the understanding is also the same, we just have to implement this. Today we have a common agreement to handle this," he said.
The English, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, and French versions are automatically generated by the AI. So there may still be inaccuracies in translating, please always see Indonesian as our main language. (system supported by DigitalSiber.id)