JAKARTA - Deputy Chairperson of the Gerindra Party, Fadli Zon, admitted that he was surprised by the difference in the number of deaths due to COVID-19 between local government and central government data that was revealed by LaporCovid in the field recently.
Based on data collected by the LaporCovid19 team, there are more than 19 thousand deaths that have been reported by district/city governments, but were not recorded in central government data.
"It is extraordinary that the difference in death data between the provincial sites and the release of the Indonesian Ministry of Health is up to 19,000 in July alone," said Fadli Zon, Thursday, August 12. Moreover, the government through the Level 4 PPKM Coordinator, Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, actually removed the COVID-19 death indicator. .
Whereas according to the Head of BKSAP, data on deaths due to COVID-19 is very important in indicators of handling the COVID-19 pandemic. Seeing the findings published by LaporCovid, Fadli suggested to the government not to work alone in handling COVID-19.
"This data issue is actually elementary. It is better to immediately fix it and find the point of the problem. Cooperation with civil society includes cooperating with LaporCovid-19," concluded the former Deputy Speaker of the Indonesian House of Representatives.
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