Since Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta, again imposed social estating restrictions last Monday, the driving force of Yosef motorcycles has noticed that its source of income falls by more than 80%; some days he only earns about 50,000 rupees (S$5).
Under stricter regulations, known locally through the acronym PSBB, the maximum number of workplaces will have to remain most of their workers at home, and although shopping malls may remain open, restaurants are not allowed.
Residents taken outdoors without a mask will be guilty of social paintings or fined 250,000 rupees.
Restrictions will be in effect until Sunday, but may be extended until (October 11) if there is a significant increase in the number of Covid-19 instances, an option that is of great fear to Yosef.
“Don’t make it bigger, it hurts those in the declining middle class,” said the father of two 38-year-olds, adding that he had already borrowed cash from his neighbors to survive.
Seven months after Indonesia reported its first cases, the country is dealing with an expansion of infections. On Tuesday, it reported 4,071 new cases, bringing its total to 252,923, with 9,837 deaths, the number of deaths in Southeast Asia.
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About 10 million more people live in overcrowded Jakarta, a figure that rises to 30 million when the metropolitan domain surrounding the city is included.
With a quarter in Indonesia, it is the epicenter of the Covid-19 epidemic in the 34 provinces of the vast archipelago.
While other countries have controlled the spread of infections with partial closures, to see a resurgence in cases where they reopen, Indonesia has still surpassed the peak of the first wave, according to Mahesa Paranadipa Maikel, president of the Indonesian Health Law Society, a trade organization made up of medical personnel and lawyers.
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“The reasons range from the timid implementation of policies through central and local government [to] public figures and officials who stick to fitness protocols. So the network is also apathetic,” Mahesa said.
The terrible epidemic has tested Jakarta’s fitness formula: the city administration said earlier this month that the isolation rooms of 67 Covid-19 reference hospitals were 77% occupied, while extensive care sets were 83%.
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Indonesia’s fitness ministry showed that there were 302 infections between its last Friday, the capital’s largest organization, while The Minister of Religious Affairs, Fachrul Razi, and the country’s former U. S. ambassador, Dino Patti Djalal, also tested positive.
Jakarta City Secretary of Administration Saefullah was last week the last senior official to die from the disease.
Indonesian Internet users have lamented the continuing backlog of cases, with some criticizing President Joko Widodo’s tenure for easing past restrictions on the basis of an economy booming too fast.
The strict regulations imposed in April were relaxing in June, and the country’s GDP fell by 5. 32% in the current quarter, its first contraction since 1999.
With unemployment expected to reach 12. 7 million next year, the government has set aside 695. 2 trillion rupees for physical care and family economic recovery.
Public servant Anton Febriawan, who works as a public relations worker at a monetary institution, said departments could only have 25% of the money in the workplace at any given time. He works from his home in Bogor, about 55 km south of Jakarta. , however, colleagues who worked in IT or counters to serve the public went to the workplace.
“The inhabitants of Jakarta were less disciplined when the restrictions were relaxed,” Anton said.
Amid requests for resignation from the Minister of Health, Terawan Agus Putranto, Widodo commissioned his trusted assistant Luhut Pandjaitan, the Minister for the Coordination of Maritime Affairs, to take the stage in nine of the worst-affected provinces, adding the capital, in two weeks.
Police and the army workers’ corps have deployed to Jakarta to ensure that Americans and businesses comply with fitness protocols.
Despite reports that the city’s deficient cannot be isolated in their small homes if a member of the family circle is ill, the government has partnered with at least 30 hotels, and 3 stars to quarantine asymptomatic patients.
But all the experts are convinced that the new set of social estating measures will alleviate the terrible scenario of hospital beds.
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Dicky Budiman, a researcher pursuing his PhD in global fitness and pandemic protection at Griffith University in Australia, noted that management statistics from Jakarta indicate that on Monday, nearly 13% of citizens tested positive for Covid-19.
Restrictions will preferably be implemented for two to 3 months if the rate is greater than 10%, he said.
“The PSBB also deserves to be implemented as the worst-case scenario,” he said, referring to the country’s most populous island, where Jakarta is located, and referring to how travel to and from the capital has exacerbated the increase in infections.
On Monday, Indonesia 1. 74 million of its population of 270 million, or six out of 1,000 people.
The Philippines, through comparison, tested another 29 people compared to 1,000 other people, while Singapore tested 155 out of 1,000.
The country is actively concerned about the search for a vaccine: Widodo has entrusted its progression to local universities, while state pharmaceutical company Bio Farma has partnered with Chinese state pharmaceutical company Sinovac to unload at least 50 million doses of its vaccine through next March, vaccine trials involving thousands of Indonesians have been conducted in Bandung City.
While Indonesia remains closed to tourists, it has revived official businesses and with the United Arab Emirates, South Korea and China.
Last month, he also started talks with Singapore for a travel broker; Widodo called for this to happen as soon as possible, as the city-state is a primary source of foreign direct investment.
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Yose Rizal Damuri, head of the economics branch of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Jakarta, said it was imperative that the city involve its Covid-19 epidemic as it directly contributed to about 60% of Indonesia’s economy.
“Without a controlled pandemic, activity and call will not increase,” he added. “There will be no advertising expansion and other people will also save more than they spend. “
Alphonzus Widjaja, president of the Indonesian Trade Centre Management Association, said shopping mall traffic had plummeted in months, adding that he hoped layoffs would be imminent.
Under the existing PSBB, he hoped to buy shopping malls in Jakarta’s central shopping district, adding spaces such as Thamrin, Sudirman and Senayan, to see no more than 20% of its visitors before the pandemic, while more remote institutions can see only 30%.
Prior to the pandemic, Alphonzus said of the association’s 82 grocery shopping centers that can report monthly transaction values of Rs 150 billion, but this would minimize given the decline in pedestrian traffic.
Yose of CSIS said family intake, which accounts for about 57% of GDP, would decrease given the poor economic climate, adding that a recovery is doubtful but that social discontent is likely to increase.
“It’s also very difficult for other social problems,” he said. “Crimes, or even [problems] on a larger scale . . . confidence in the economy continues to fall. “
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This article was first published in the South China Morning Post.