Anies Baswedan Makes COVID-19 Vaccination A Condition For Activities In Jakarta

Anies Baswedan reviews vaccination (Photo: ANTARA)

JAKARTA - DKI Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan plans to open activities in the social, cultural, economic and religious sectors. However, with the condition of COVID-19 vaccination certification. He said this effort was made to suppress the spread of the virus when non-essential sectors were opened.

"Looking at the fact that in Jakarta the speed of administering vaccines is quite high, and the reach that has been vaccinated has reached 7.5 million. So we decided that vaccines are part of the stage for community activities," he said, quoted from the DKI Jakarta Government's YouTube account, Saturday, 31 July.

Furthermore, Anies said that the opening in each sector will be carried out in stages, and it is certain that this stage must be related to vaccination.

"Before the activity starts, the perpetrators in that sector, the perpetrators of the activities must be vaccinated first. So, for example, a barber who wants to open, may. But the barber must be vaccinated first, and those who want to shave must have been vaccinated. vaccinate employees first. Those who want to eat in restaurants must also have the vaccine," he said.

Not only that, said Anies, non-essential offices that want to carry out work from office (WFO), shopping centers, entertainment venues may also open if they have been vaccinated. Thus, the opening stage is accompanied by the necessity to vaccinate all perpetrators.

Vaccine requirements as an administrative activity include religious activities. The organizers, as well as the participants, must all have been vaccinated.

"How can I check? There are many ways, but one of them is by using the JAKI application. With this application, you can immediately see whether you have been vaccinated, have you been vaccinated once, have you been vaccinated twice, have you not been vaccinated, it is immediately visible ," he said.

Not only through JAKI, said Anies, verification and validation to check whether residents have been vaccinated or not can also be done using SMS from PeduliLindung as proof of vaccination. Then, there is digital certification from the Ministry of Health.

"So there are many tools that can be used to show the vaccination status," he said.

Meanwhile, for COVID-19 survivors who have just recovered and have to wait another three months to receive the vaccine, they can show negative results through the latest PCR swab.

"This provision will also exist for groups who have not been able to vaccinate because of certain health conditions, it is enough with a doctor's certificate from a health facility as proof," he said.

Anticipate Data Manipulation

Anies emphasized that residents should not avoid getting vaccinated, not falsify evidence, or lie, because his party will prepare various anticipations for this. He also said that vaccination is safe, lowers the risk of death, and getting the vaccine is very easy, and free.

"So, why does the obligation to have the vaccine also exist before the activity starts? Because the potential for transmission is still there and we want to protect it. That means, if there are activities and they are still infected, God willing, the risk is small for serious cases, let alone aggravations, especially in fatalities," he said.

In addition, said Anies, the vaccination requirement is an effort to collect data on residents who have not been vaccinated so that they can immediately get vaccinated. Thus, the existence of this policy makes residents not subject to administrative sanctions.

Such as delaying or discontinuing the provision of social security or social assistance, delaying or discontinuing government administrative services to sanctions in accordance with the general provisions of the Law on infectious disease outbreaks, as mandated in Presidential Regulation (Perpres) No. 14 of 2021 article 13 A and article 13B.

Anies admitted that this policy was taken by considering scientific research in the medical field and supported by facts on the ground in Jakarta that vaccination has been proven to reduce the risk of severity and risk of death from COVID-19.

"Of the 4.2 million people with DKI Jakarta ID cards who have been vaccinated at least the first dose, only 2.3 percent are still infected. The number is very small. And most of those infected, from 2.3 percent, they do not symptomatic or mild symptomatic," he said.

For your information, based on the official website of the Ministry of Health as of Saturday, July 31, at 12.00 WIB, it was recorded that 7,545,032 people had received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine in DKI Jakarta. While 2,692,630 people have finished receiving the second dose.

This means that the vaccination target of the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government of the total target of 8,395,427 people has reached 89.87 percent of the target for the first dose of vaccination. Meanwhile, the second dose of injection only reached 32.07 percent.