Entering The Mall Requires You To Show Vaccination Card, YLKI: It Is Prone To Falsification Of Vaccination Cards

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JAKARTA - Chairman of the Indonesian Consumers Foundation (YLKI), Tulus Abadi, highlighted the requirement for a vaccine card as entry access at a number of shopping centers or malls during the Community Activity Restrictions (PPKM) period. Mall entry requirements have been tightened to reduce the spread of COVID-19.

However, according to him, vaccine cards or certificates have the potential to be falsified. Therefore, it is necessary to anticipate that there will be no loopholes in crime through the falsification of certificates by irresponsible parties.

"Looking at the experience of the case at the airport, there was also an incident of falsification of the PCR test results. So, forgery of vaccination certificates in shopping centers or in public facilities has the potential as well”, said Tulus, Monday, August 9.

Tulus said that the requirements for entering a shopping center with the condition of traveling by air have different levels of importance. However, it remains a new mode of fraud to take advantage of certain parties.

Although people who falsify documents such as PCR test results are more likely to be at the airport. While forgery of vaccine certificates to get into shopping centers has a smaller potential, but there are still attempts to fake it.

"If you just want to go to the mall and then you have to forge a vaccine letter or a doctor's letter, which is hard to get, I think the effort is different if we want to fly. If we fly, we want to go to an important destination, so that every effort is taken", he explained.

In order to prevent falsification of vaccine certificates, Tulus suggested to the government or the security-related parties to conduct sudden inspections (sidak) on public facilities. Including shopping centers and traditional markets.

“I think maybe the government or the Civil service police (Satpol PP) can occasionally conduct random checks to anticipate this. This creates therapeutic shock for the public or visitors who try to fake this vaccine certificate", said Tulus Abadi.