After Can't Be Accessed, The PeduliLindungi App Again Operates Normally

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) announced that the PeduliLindung website and application will resume normal operations, Wednesday, September 14, at 09.30 WIB. PeduliLindungi experienced disruption due to the routine maintenance process.

The statement was announced by the Ministry of Health through the Twitter account @PLindung as reported in Jakarta, Wednesday, September 14.

Previously, the Head of the Public Relations Bureau of the Ministry of Health, Siti Nadia Tarmizi, confirmed that the system disturbance occurred due to routine maintenance.

"The application can still be opened, but still cannot enter the vaccine verification until this morning," he said.

Nadia said routine maintenance of the PeduliLindung system network had actually been completed at 03.00 WIB today, but the engineering team extended the treatment process.

"In the next few hours, the PeduliLindung website and application can be reused immediately by the community," he said.

According to Nadia, the Ministry of Health has informed the Port Health Office (KKP), airport managers, and public transportation regarding the disruption. Service managers are confirmed to continue to provide services.

"People hope to be able to show their vaccine certificates that have been downloaded or stored on their cellphones during traveling by public transportation," he said.

In addition, the public is also advised to immediately update the latest version of the PeduliLindung application.

One user of the PeduliLindung application Fitri Haryanti said that system problems have been experienced since Tuesday, September 13 afternoon.

"Last night, I returned to normal. Now I can also open PeduliLindung. When I error, I also can't enter and enter yesterday's application," he said.

The operator gave a notification so that users immediately update the latest version of 4.5.4.

The PeduliLindung application was developed by the government to break the chain of transmission of COVID-19, which is available for devices with Android and iOS operating systems, as well as website versions available.

Based on Antara's report, the application has several functions, among others, warning users if they are in an area where there are many positive cases of COVID-19, monitoring the movement of people exposed to COVID-19, downloading vaccine certificates.

In addition, providing information on COVID-19 test results, being a means to access public transportation services and other public places.

In the future, PeduliLindung will transform into a citizen health app that is integrated with medical record data and other health applications.