Community Mobility In These 3 Provinces Is Still High Even Though Emergency PPKM Applies

DOK ANTARA

JAKARTA - The implementation of Emergency Community Activity Restrictions (PPKM) has been running for three days. However, in three provinces, namely Banten, DKI Jakarta, and West Java, there is still movement or high mobility of the community.

Spokesperson for the Coordinator of Maritime Affairs and Investments, Jodi Mahardi, said that this movement or mobility was monitored through Facebook Mobility, Google Traffic and Light Night from NASA.

"The three indicators are then made a composite index to describe mobility in general," said Jodi in a press conference broadcast on the Presidential Secretariat's YouTube, Monday, July 5.

This condition then made the government ask people to stay at home either to work, study, or worship. This is important because the decline in the number of positive cases of COVID-19 which is crazy lately requires a decrease in mobility by 30 to 50 percent.

"It takes a 30 percent reduction in mobility to reduce the number of cases. However, with the current Delta variant, our estimate needs a 50 percent reduction in community mobility," he said.

"We need to support each other to achieve this indicator. Stay at home, be productive, and worship at home," added Jodi.

Jodi said the Emergency PPKM Coordinator, Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, had held a meeting with regional heads to evaluate the findings. So, in the future, local governments can intervene in the movement or mobility of people in their territory.

"This mobility index data will later be given to each region for immediate evaluation and intervention because it was found that there are still a lot of community movements in the three provinces," said Jodi.

As previously reported, the government has implemented Emergency PPKM on the island of Java-Bali since last Saturday, July 3. This application is carried out for two weeks until 20 July.

A number of restrictions were implemented during this period, including working 100 percent at home for the non-essential sector, closing shopping centers, and eliminating social activities that could potentially cause crowds.

Even so, the mobility of residents in DKI Jakarta remains high due to congestion and this has become the focus of Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin.

"I still see the streets in Jakarta, the emergency PPKM has been implemented, and there are still traffic jams," said Minister of Health Budi in a meeting with Commission IX of the DPR which was broadcast virtually, Monday, July 5.

Budi then reminded that the recent surge in COVID-19 cases was the result of uncontrolled mobility and people's behavior that was difficult to discipline.

"All of this happened because mobility was not controlled. So this increase occurred because people's movements were difficult to ask for discipline," he said.