Anies Calls The Proposed Criminal Sanctions For Prokes Violators And Not Wearing Masks If Repeated Violations

The Plenary Meeting of the DKI Jakarta DPRD (Photo: Diah Ayu/VOI)

JAKARTA - DKI Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan explained his reasons for proposing additional criminal sanctions for people who do not wear masks and business sectors that violate health protocols.

This is stated in the draft amendment to Regional Regulation Number 2 of 2020 concerning COVID-19 which is proposed to the DKI DPRD.

In a plenary meeting with the DPRD today, Anies said that criminal sanctions would be imposed if they had committed repeated violations.

That is, the punishment for anyone who repeats the act of not wearing a mask is carried out after he has been subject to sanctions in the form of social work or administrative fines.

Meanwhile, punishment for certain legal subjects who repeat acts of violating health protocols is carried out after being subject to sanctions for revocation of business licenses.

"This criminal offense is constructed for people who repeat it after the person concerned has been subjected to administrative sanctions," said Anies in a speech read by Jakarta Deputy Governor Ahmad Riza Patria at the DKI DPRD Building, Wednesday, July 21.

Anies said, if the proposed Regional Regulation 2/2021 is approved by the DPRD, he hopes that the existing sanctions can be carried out in accordance with the principle of justice.

"Law enforcement is not carried out sharply downwards, bluntly upwards. Once again, the enforcement of this process is one of our joint efforts in completing the COVID-19 response," he said.

It is known that in the draft amendments to the regional regulations received by VOI, Anies added two articles between Articles 32 and 33, namely Articles 32A and 32B. This article adds a criminal threat.

He explained, if there are violators who repeat the act of not wearing a mask after being given social and administrative work sanctions, they will be sentenced to a maximum of three months in prison or a maximum fine of Rp. 500,000.

Furthermore, for business actors such as offices, industry, hotels, transportation, and restaurants who repeat acts of violating health protocols and have received a license revocation, they will be sentenced to a maximum imprisonment of three months or a maximum fine of IDR 50,000,000.

Not only that, Anies also inserted one article between Articles 28 and 29, namely Article 28A. This article contains rules regarding the investigation of violators of the PPKM provisions. In addition to the article, Anies wants DKI State Civil Apparatus (ASN) such as the Satpol PP to have the authority as investigators.

"In addition to investigators from the State Police of the Republic of Indonesia, certain civil servants within the provincial government and/or civil servant investigators at the Satpol Pamong Praja, are given special authority as investigators as referred to in the Criminal Procedure Code to carry out investigations of violations in regulations this area," Anies wrote in the document.

This means that this investigator is authorized to receive reports, conduct examinations, ask for information and evidence, examine the identification of people suspected of violating the rules, take fingerprints, take pictures and provide the results of investigations to the police and district courts to determine criminal penalties.