Tasikmalaya Coffee Shop Owner Fined Rp5 Million, Boshe VVIP Club Bali Fined Rp1 Million

Different regions, different rules. If the owner of a coffee shop in Tasikmalaya, West Java is fined Rp. 5 million, the Boshe VVIP Bali nightclub is fined Rp. 1 million (ILLUSTRATION/UNSPLASH)

BADUNG - The application of sanctions for violators of the emergency PPKM is different in each region. If the owner of a coffee shop in Tasikmalaya, West Java is fined Rp. 5 million, the Boshe VVIP Bali nightclub is fined Rp. 1 million.

Spokesperson for the COVID-19 Task Force for Badung Regency, Bali, I Gusti Ngurah Gede Jaya Saputra, said that the karaoke and bar of the Boshe VVIP Club in Bali, which was secretly open during Emergency PPKM, was fined Rp. 1 million and closed for a week.

This is in accordance with the Badung Regent's Regulation (Perbub) Number 52 of 2020 concerning the Implementation of Discipline and Law Enforcement of Health Protocols as an effort to prevent and control Corona Virus Disease 2019 in the New Era Order.

"The management has been summoned earlier. The sanction imposed according to the Perbub is a fine of Rp. 1 million, the second being a business closure for one week," said Saputra, when contacted Monday, July 19.

Saputra emphasized that if more serious violations were found, then Boshe VVIP Bali could be permanently closed.

"Indeed, the regulation is in the Perbub. That was first. If later in the next one something more severe is found and so on, a permanent closure could be made," he said.

"This means that in accordance with the enforcement in PPKM first or in tipiring first. If later they are stubborn and so on, they will be permanently closed," he said.

Saputra explained that the violation committed by the management of Boshe VVIP Bali was operating during an emergency PPKM. The task force reminded nightclub owners that strict action would be taken if they violated the emergency PPKM rules.

"They are open until the afternoon, the information is like that. Now from the guidance first, if they are stubborn, it is clear from law enforcement," said Saputra.

Different Fines for Tasikmalaya Coffee Shop Owners

The owner of a coffee shop who violated the emergency PPKM in Tasikmalaya, West Java chose to be locked up in prison for 3 days. He did not have the money to pay the Rp5 million fine.

The head of the Tasikmalaya District Attorney's Office, Fajaruddin Yusuf, said that the emergency PPKM violator, namely Asep Lutfi (23) the owner of a coffee shop in Tasikmalaya City, chose to be detained rather than pay a Rp5 million fine based on the results of the Tasikmalaya District Court trial.

"Based on the decision, he was asked to pay a fine of Rp. 5 million or a three-day imprisonment, after being confirmed, he chose to undergo confinement," Fajaruddin said as quoted by Antara, Friday, July 16.

He said that the violator of the emergency PPKM chose to go to prison because he did not have the money to pay the fine, so that according to the regulations, he had to serve confinement in the Tasikmalaya Prison as a substitute for the fine.

Furthermore, violators who have been decided by the court, he said, must undergo confinement and coaching in prisons, not in the police station.

"In prison, because this has been decided, if it is at the police or prosecutor's office, it is a case that has not been signed or is still being investigated, if this is the case it has been signed," he said.