COVID-19 Task Force Finds 3 Sriwijaya Passengers Entering Sorong City Without Entry Permits

The Sorong City COVID-19 Task Force during surveillance at Domine Eduard Osok airport, Thursday, August 5 (Photo: Ernes Broning Kakisina/Antara)

JAKARTA - The Sorong City COVID-19 Handling Task Force found three Sriwijaya Air passengers with ID cards outside West Papua Province arriving at Domine Eduard Osok Airport without having an entry permit from the task force as a requirement for travel documents as stipulated in the Sorong Mayor's circular regarding PPKM. Sriwijaya Air from Surabaya Airport was found when the COVID-19 Handling Task Force Team supervised the implementation of community activity restrictions (PPKM) at Domine Eduard Osok Airport, Thursday. Arriving at Sorong Airport, the passenger has an ID card outside West Papua, but escapes to board the plane without an entry permit from the COVID-19 Handling Task Force in accordance with the Sorong Mayor's circular regarding PPKM. passengers who do not have a permit to enter the city of Sorong between the implementation of PPKM, but still stubborn. "Even making a note that the passenger is responsible if there is a problem at the destination airport, as if he did not understand the PPKM rules and clashed the Task Force with travel agents," he said as quoted by Antara, Friday, August 6. He said that the findings This has been repeated so many times that it can be concluded that the Sriwijaya airline at the airport from Surabaya ignored the Sorong Mayor's circular regarding PPKM.

The Secretary of the Sorong City COVID-19 Task Force, Herlin Sasabone, who gave a separate statement, confirmed that in supervising the implementation of PPKM in Nandara Sorong, the task force field team found three passengers arriving from Makassar without the required travel documents for the Sorong City entry permit according to the Mayor's circular. regarding PPKM. He explained that the Sorong City COVID-19 Task Force field team on duty at the airport immediately gave a warning to the airline and the trip. passengers do not have a complete Sorong City entry permit. "We hope that in the implementation of PPKM the Sriwijaya airline does not make a violation of passing travelers without having a Sorong city entry permit," said Herlinn Sasabone.