Market Traders Ask For Rules For Customers To Enter Markets In Jakarta Must Have Been Revoked

ILLUSTRA TION / VOI

JAKARTA - General Chairperson of the Indonesian Market Traders Association (Ikappi) Abdullah Mansuri emphasized that his party rejected the condition that traders and market visitors must have been vaccinated against COVID-19 while operating at traditional markets in Jakarta.

The new regulation stipulates that traders and visitors must present a vaccination certificate for at least the first dose before entering the market.

This rule is contained in the Decree of the Head of the Manpower, Transmigration, and Energy Office of DKI Number 1972 of 2021 concerning the COVID-19 Prevention and Control Protocol in Private, BUMN or BUMD Offices at PPKM Level 4 COVID-19.

"Actually, we regret that there is a requirement to use a vaccine card," Abdullah said when met at Tanah Abang Market, Central Jakarta, Friday, July 30.

Abdullah views that the requirement for a vaccination certificate will reduce the number of visitors entering the market. Remember, not all of the visitors who shop at the market, especially Tanah Abang, are residents of Jakarta.

"In the end, people don't fully enter the market. People can't be as free as usual. Especially in Tanah Abang, buyers can come from Padang, from anywhere," he said.

According to Abdullah, efforts to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in the market environment are sufficient with vaccinations for market traders who have been running. He said, if the vaccination of traders has been completed, there is no need for a vaccine certificate requirement for visitors.

Therefore, Abdullah asked the DKI Provincial Government to revoke the decree that required the vaccination requirements. "After this vaccination is carried out in all markets in Jakarta, we ask for the decree to be revoked," he said.