When High School Students Asked What The Impact Of PPKM Was, President Jokowi Answered This

President Joko Widodo (Photo: Screenshot of the Presidential Secretariat YouTube)

JAKARTA - A high school student asked President Joko Widodo about the impact of implementing PPKM in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic.

This was conveyed by a student of SMAN 39 Jakarta, Christanti Yanita Zega while talking to Jokowi who was reviewing the implementation of virtual student vaccinations.

Hearing this question, Jokowi, who was at the State Palace, asked the student's name again. "Who was this, huh? What's his name?" Jokowi asked, broadcast on the Presidential Secretariat's Youtube, Wednesday, July 14.

Christanti said her name once again. Then, Jokowi replied, PPKM is the government's effort to limit community activities so that there is not much interaction between people and people, between groups and groups.

"Because if you meet only one person, who carries the virus, who is already positive for COVID, it can spread everywhere. So, this PPKM reduces mobility, avoids gatherings, reduces interaction between people and people or groups with groups. So it will reduce the transmission of COVID -19. If the mobility decreases, the interaction between people decreases, the distribution will also certainly decrease. The theory is like that," Jokowi explained.

Efforts to limit each country, continued Jokowi, were carried out in various ways, ranging from regional quarantine or lockdown, strict restrictions, to micro-scale PPKM carried out by Indonesia.

"Indeed, there are various ways. But, basically all of that, both lockdown, PPKM, it is reducing mobility, reducing people's interactions with people. The point is that the restrictions are there," he said

Today, Jokowi is reviewing virtually the implementation of student vaccinations and door-to-door vaccinations organized by the State Intelligence Agency (BIN). This vaccination was carried out at 32 points in 15 districts/cities. In detail, there are 19 thousand people who are targeted for door-to-door vaccination, 15 thousand junior high school students, and 15 thousand high school students.