The Ups And Downs Of Community Mobility During The Implementation Of 3 Types Of PPKM In Jakarta

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JAKARTA - The Metro Jaya Regional Police noted the ups and downs of mobility during the implementation of three types of Community Activity Restrictions (PPKM) policies in the Jakarta and surrounding areas.

Based on the data, at the beginning of the implementation of all PPKM policies such as micro, emergency, and level 4, there was a decrease in mobility. But, if each is compared, then there is an increase in mobility.

"We can see that compared to micro PPKM, emergency PPKM, even PPKM level 4, this week there is still a significant decline. But then entering PPKM level 4 in the second week and even a few days ago the numbers have started to rise and are almost close to before the deadline. PPKM micro," said the Director of Traffic of the Polda Metro Jaya Kombes Sambodo Purnomo Yogo to reporters, Tuesday, August 3.

Based on the data, the decline in community mobility every week is quite large. Where, micro PPKM recorded a decrease of 39 percent in the second week of implementing the policy.

Then, emergency PPKM also decreased by 52 percent during the three weeks of implementing the policy. The same thing happened in two weeks of implementing the PPKM level 4 policy.

"If we look at the number of emergency PPKM compared to micro PPKM in the first week the figure fell by 36 percent, in the second week it fell again by 39 percent. Then the third week emergency PPKM still fell by 52 percent," said Sambodo.

"Then the PPKM level 4 in the first week and the second week, the numbers are still lower when compared to the numbers in micro PPKM," he continued.

However, if all three types of PPKM data are compared, it appears that there is an increase in community mobility.

One example is when implementing emergency PPKM with micro PPKM, there is an increase in community mobility by 7 percent.

"Even when compared to the second week, the increase was 26 percent. So yesterday I said yesterday there was an average increase of 30 percent compared to the first 4 weeks of PPKM compared to the third week of emergency PPKM," said Sambodo.

For information, the government has extended the PPKM period until August 9. This assurance was conveyed directly by President Joko Widodo (Jokowi).

"The government has decided to continue implementing PPKM Level 4 from August 3 to 9, 2021 in certain regencies/cities by adjusting activity and mobility arrangements according to the conditions of each region," Jokowi said in a video statement uploaded to the Presidential Secretariat's YouTube account, Monday. , August 2nd.

Jokowi said the decision to extend this restriction was made even though improvements have been made for some time.

There were also a number of improvements, including in terms of daily case confirmation, active case case rate, cure rate, and bed occupancy rate in hospitals.

"PPKM Level 4 which was implemented from July 26 to August 2 has brought improvements on a national scale compared to before," said Jokowi.