Emergency PPKM Plan, Deputy Governor Of DKI: Maybe Tomorrow Delivered

Jakarta Deputy Governor Ahmad Riza Patria (DOK VOI/Rizky Aditya)

JAKARTA - The Deputy Governor of DKI Jakarta admitted that the central and regional governments had held a meeting to discuss the implementation of emergency PPKM as a substitute for micro PPKM. Riza said an announcement about it would be made tomorrow.

"We just had a meeting with the Coordinating Minister (Airlangga Hartato) with the relevant ministers, the governors. Maybe it will be delivered tomorrow. We'll just have to wait," said Riza at City Hall, Central Jakarta, Tuesday, June 29.

Riza admitted that there would be a follow-up meeting regarding the emergency PPKM which contained more stringent restrictions on activities than before. Therefore, he did not want to announce in detail.

"Tomorrow morning we will have another meeting. In principle, there needs to be a tightening, that's all I can convey. The Coordinating Minister and his staff consider that there is a need for an increase in tightening from the existing ones.

According to Riza, the DKI Provincial Government will implement whatever policies the central government decides. "God willing, from the start, every policy decided by the central government, DKI is ready to implement it as well as possible," added Riza.

Previously, it was reported that the government would replace the stricter COVID-19 control system with an emergency PPKM. This replaces the micro PPKM which has been running for several months.

Head of the Task Force for Handling COVID-19 Ganip Warsito said the government would change a number of rules from the Instruction of the Minister of Home Affairs (Inmendagri) Number 14 of 2021 concerning micro-based PPKM.

"Later, there will be changes to Inmendagri Number 14 of 2021 which we are still guiding today. This restriction is also carried out to control so that COVID-19 does not spread further," Ganip said at a BNPB coordination meeting, Monday, June 28.

Ganip leaked a number of regulations that will be tightened in areas with red zones (high COVID-19 risk) and orange zones (moderate COVID-19 risk).

If previously the government issued a policy of working from home or work from home (WFH) 75 percent only in areas with red zones, later the orange zone areas will be included in the regulation.

"For example, what will be implemented later is the implementation for PPKM activities. WFH and WFO will be applied at 75 percent and 25 percent for red and orange areas," he said.

In addition, the operational activities of the business sector will also be tightened. The operating hours of malls and shopping centers are shortened. Then, restaurants or restaurants will be prohibited from serving dine-in.

"For the economic sector such as this mall, it is only operational until 17:00. Restaurants are only allowed to take away, this is limited to 20:00," he said.

"These are some restrictions that will later be applied as a revision of the Inmendagri which is being guided to this day," he continued.