Coordinating Minister Airlangga: Community Mobility To Public Spaces Depends On Vaccines

Airlangga Hartarto/ ANTARA

SURABAYA - The government will require vaccines for public visitors such as tourist attractions, restaurants, and other public places. People's mobility is said to be dependent on vaccination.

"In the future, all people's mobility will depend on whether they have been vaccinated or not, it must be distinguished," said Coordinating Minister for the Economy (Menko) Airlangga Hartarto, at the Joint Action Movement for Cooperative Action against COVID-19 forum organized by Universitas Airlangga ( Unair) Surabaya virtually, Friday, July 30.

Airlangga targets that the mandatory COVID-19 vaccine regulations for visiting public places can be implemented in the next 2-3 weeks. Later, visitors are required to show a vaccine certificate obtained through the Peduli Protect application when they want to enter a public place.

In addition to vaccination data, the Peduli Protect application will also be able to record PCR test data and antigen swab as a requirement for inter-city travel. Currently, he continued, the government is preparing to integrate the Peduli Protect application with vaccination data from all regions.

"All of them can be captured with PeduliLindung. This is the first stage that is being prepared in the next two, three weeks," he said.

Currently, continued Airlangga, the PeduliLindung application has only been downloaded by 15 million users in Indonesia. In fact, the population who have received the COVID-19 vaccine injection is more than 48 million people. Airlangga said that people's mobility in the future will depend on their vaccination status.

"So, of course, with this integration, public places or restaurants should be, when people want to enter, the barcode must be checked and it can be linked to know that the person concerned has been vaccinated or not," he said.

Previously, the Chairperson of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) Arsjad Rasjid suggested the same thing, namely that vaccines are a requirement for visitors to shopping centers or malls.

"The hope is that retailers, in malls, hope that if they can, all workers in the malls have been vaccinated, and if those present can provide that they have been vaccinated, the hope is that the retail will continue to run," he said.