Results Of A Survey Show 19.9 Million People Intend To Go To Their Hometown For Christmas And New Year Holidays, Jokowi: I Ask To Be Managed

President Joko Widodo (Antara)

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo reminded all regional heads to properly manage and regulate the 2021 Christmas and 2022 New Year holidays. Because these holidays have the potential to cause an increase in crowds and community mobility, such as going home.

Based on previous experience -- Christmas 2020 and New Year's holidays 2021 -- led to an increase in the spread of COVID-19 which was not small.

"I really ask that for it to be managed, regulated, so that this Christmas and New Year will run without crowds," President Jokowi said while giving a virtual briefing to regional heads throughout Indonesia at the Merdeka Palace, Jakarta, Monday, October 25 at a press release in Jakarta, Tuesday, October 26.

Based on the survey results, there are 19.9 million people who intend to go home during the holiday. According to him, a large number must be anticipated by all authorities in the provinces, districts, and cities.

"This is what we have to anticipate, all provinces, all regencies, and cities must remind their citizens that this Christmas (2021) and New Year's (2022) it is better not to travel anywhere," said Jokowi as quoted by Antara.

Therefore, according to him, all elements of the Regional Leadership Coordination Forum at all levels of government have a very important role in socializing it. Mainly, to anticipate the possibility of an unexpected third wave.

"We hope that we can manage Christmas (2021) and New Year's (2022) well, because almost all epidemiologists are afraid that what will trigger the third wave will be Christmas (2021) and New Year's (2022)," he explained.

"I hope that everything is designed, planned in detail according to the conditions of the local community, respecting existing norms. But again, staying in accordance with health protocols with dynamic gas and brakes, always alert, ready to act, quick to act, that's what we must continue to do. We take care of it," he said.