JAKARTA - Communicologist Emrus Sihombing assesses that President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) needs to evaluate the handling of COVID-19 in the upstream sector to stop the increase in positive cases of Corona.
“Policies regarding the handling of COVID-19 must be firm. This concerns human safety," said Emrus in a statement received by VOI, Saturday, June 19.
According to him, in addition to taking legal action for violators of the health protocol (prokes), there must also be intensive communication between the central government and local governments. This is at the same time to raise public awareness of the dangers of this deadly virus.
“The central government must build intensive communication with local governments, and vice versa. So, when urgent cases arise in the regions, the central government can immediately issue policies quickly," he said.
"All (communication) can be done online or otherwise. So with this communication, there can be fast action in handling COVID-19," continued Emrus.
He reminded that the policy for handling COVID-19 must be due to humanitarian factors to save the people of Indonesia. Therefore, according to him, every regional head or central government must abandon political interests.
“They (regional heads) have different parties. All of that must be abandoned, for the sake of human safety," he explained.
Emrus added, the lack of communication in handling COVID-19 could have fatal consequences. Moreover, the number of COVID-19 cases is currently increasing.
“The delay in handling COVID-19 policies due to unhealthy communication will have a fatal impact. Communication space must be open, ignore political interests. I am sure that the handling of COVID-19 will be completed," he said.
Emrus reminded, in the precarious condition of COVID-19, the government must give approval to regions that want to implement a lockdown. Moreover, this policy has been regulated in the regulations for handling COVID-19.
"So this is a tug-of-war policy for handling COVID-19 because there is no open communication of space and material between the center and the regions," he said.
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