At The Palace, Zulkifli Hasan Praises Jokowi About The Efforts To Handle The Pandemic: It's Excellent Sir

Chairman of PAN Zulkifli Hasan (Presidential Secretariat Youtube)

JAKARTA - PAN chairman Zulkifli Hasan for the first time met with President Jokowi at the Palace in the ranks of the coalition parties supporting the government. At the Palace, Zulkifli praised Jokowi's efforts to handle the COVID-19 pandemic.

"What the president said earlier was excellent, sir. The keyword is that Indonesia is mutual cooperation, yes," said Zulkifli during a meeting of the leadership of the government coalition political parties whose videos were uploaded on the Presidential Secretariat Youtube, Saturday, August 28.

Zulkifli Hasan had the last chance to speak among the political parties of the Jokowi-Ma'ruf Amin coalition. Before. Zulhas, Head of PPP, Suharso Monoarfa, gave a statement in front of Jokowi.

"Because it's my first time, I can't take too many, sir. Once again, accept the case for the opportunity given by the president," said Zulhas.

Meanwhile, Jokowi in his presentation to the coalition political party chairman said the development of COVID-19 was difficult to predict.

"Regarding COVID-19, the daily development of COVID-19 cases is indeed difficult to predict, but thank God, today, August 24 yesterday (positive number) 19teen thousand out of 56 thousand. This is what I think we are doing as well. , said the President.

The President said he himself contacted a number of countries to modify the Indonesian version of the COVID-19 handling method.

"Regarding the occupancy of beds in hospitals, in May, we once reached 29 percent and then jumped in July to almost 80 percent. Today we have lowered it again to 30 percent, thank God. the police, ministries, state-owned enterprises, local governments are all," said the President.

As for the recovery rate, according to the President, Indonesia's average recovery is already above the world average, which is 89.97 percent compared to the world average of 89.5 percent.

"What we haven't been able to resolve yet, I always convey this to the Minister of Health and the regional government so that this number of deaths must be kept under pressure," the President added.

As for vaccination ratings, according to the President, Indonesia's ranking is not bad out of a total of around 220 countries.

"Our rankings are not that bad. If we count the number of people who have been vaccinated, we are number 4. India is number 1, number 2 is the United States, number 3 is Brazil, we are number 4, Indonesia. Then based on the total injections, 91.9 million doses have been injected. We are not inferior to Germany, Japan, Brazil, America, China," said Jokowi.

Furthermore, related to economic conditions, the President again explained the gas and brake strategy.

"Because if the case goes down, the economy will definitely go up, if the case goes up, the economy will definitely go down, that's the formula. We're looking for equilibrium, looking for balance. distribution of vaccines alone, distribution of medicines alone takes a lot of time," said Jokowi.