Want To Travel To Bogor? Better Postponed, Road Blocking Is Done 24 Hours

Bogor Mayor Bima Arya and Bogor City Police Chief, Kombes Pol. Susatyo Purnomo Condro, supervise the implementation of motorized vehicle insulation in Bogor City/Antara

JAKARTA - The Bogor City COVID-19 Handling Task Force imposed a barrier for motorized vehicles to enter Bogor City during the implementation of Emergency PPKM in Bogor City for 24 hours starting Wednesday, July 7th.

"Residents from outside the city of Bogor who enter the city of Bogor without any important purpose or just walking, are asked to turn around," said Bima Arya when he was a resource person at the virtual discussion "PPKM Emergency: Protect Families" in Bogor City, reported by Antara Wednesday. July 7th.

According to Bima, the imposition of motorized vehicle isolation in Bogor City for 24 hours and with a wider area, the target is to reduce the mobility of residents by 50 percent, in order to suppress the high positive cases of COVID-19.

Residents who do not work in essential and critical sectors and do not have urgent interests, he said, are asked to turn their vehicles around.

"With the implementation of this 24-hour motorized partition, residents from outside the city of Bogor who just want to travel to Bogor cannot enter the city of Bogor," he said.

According to him, the Bogor City COVID-19 Handling Task Force has prepared isolation locations in many places, up to the city limits. Previously, the Task Force carried out insulating motorized vehicles at night, from 21:00 WIB to 24.00 WIB.

"In the implementation of nightly isolation, it has reduced the mobility of residents by about 20 percent. However, this has not been effective in suppressing the surge in positive cases of COVID-19," he said.

Previously, the Bogor City Police Chief Kombes Pol Susatyo, in Bogor City, Tuesday, July 6, said the Bogor City COVID-19 Handling Task Force was expanding and tightening the implementation of motor vehicle insulation by adding six blocking locations within the city limits.

"From the results of the evaluation of the implementation of Emergency PPKM in Bogor City, for three days on 3-5 July 2021, it was concluded that the mobility of residents decreased by 21 percent," he said.

According to Susatyo, the percentage of reduced mobility of residents is considered not optimal to suppress the surge in positive cases of COVID-19, so it needs to be reduced to 50 percent.

To reduce the mobility of residents to 50 percent, he said, the Bogor City COVID-19 Handling Task Force agreed to expand and tighten the implementation of motorized vehicle insulation.

"Previously, there were 10 locations in the city with blocks from 21:00 WIB to 24:00 WIB, then starting Tuesday, July 6, six locations were added to the city limits," he said.

Susatyo added that in order to make the motor vehicle insulation more effective, the Bogor City COVID-19 Handling Task Force had coordinated with the Bogor Regency COVID-19 Handling Task Force to carry out joint insulation in the Greater Bogor area.