16 KM Nggapulu Crew Members at Tanjung Priok Contract Covid-19
The rapid tests found 16 crew members of Motorboat (KM) Nggapuluwith indications of COVID-19 infection.
Health workers disinfect the luggage and crew of the KM Nggapulu as they disembark on 20 April 2020 at Tanjung Priok Port, North Jakarta. Sixteen crewmen aboard the ship have tested positive for Covid-19 according to the results of their rapid tests.
JAKARTA, KOMPAS — Based on rapid test results at Tanjung Priok Port, North Jakarta, 16 crew members of Motorboat (KM) Nggapulu showed indication of COVID-19 infection. The vessel berthed on Monday (20/4/2020) and left from Surabaya, East Java.
Jakarta Metro Police chief spokesman Sr. Comr. Yusri Yunus said KM Nggapulu berthed at Pier 106, Tanjung Priok Port at 12:47 p.m. yesterday. “The boat was carrying 161 passengers and 111 crew members,” he stated on Tuesday morning (21/4/2020).
At 1 p.m. to 2 p.m., a team from the Port Health Office (KKP) Class I of Tanjung Priok, led by KKP head Dr. Jefri Hasurungan Sitorus, conducted health checks on all boat crew members and all passengers in the waiting room of Nusantarapura passenger terminal.
“The rapid tests found 16 crew members with indications of COVID-19 infection,” said Yusri. They included the chief officer, chief engineer, second engineer, electrician, storemen, servants/mess boys and a security officer.
The rapid tests found 16 crew members with indications of COVID-19 infection.
Yusri added that the 16 crew members were taken to Pelni Hospital, Petamburan, West Jakarta, at 6:30 p.m. by six ambulances. Meanwhile, KM Nggapulu was moored outside the dam of Tanjung Priok Port with its 95 other crew members. They go through 14-day independent quarantine aboard the boat and are under KKP surveillance.
Yusri revealed that monitoring was also conducted at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Tangerang, Banten. On Monday at around 8 p.m., Soekarno-Hatta precinct police officers monitored the arrival of Indonesian migrant workers and Indonesian citizens from Bangkok, Thailand, at Terminal 3. They totaled 158 people.
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Ambulances are on standby on 20 April 2020 at Tanjung Priok Port, North Jakarta. Sixteen crewmen of the KM Nggapulu, which is docked at the port, have tested positive for Covid-19.
The Indonesians comprised 128 migrant workers, 14 school/college students, 6 Islamic preachers from Magetan, East Java, 10 general passengers and 13 crew members. Results of Sukarno-Hatta KKP Class I officers’ examinations based on body temperature and rapid tests on 95 people showed no positive COVID-19 infection. They were later allowed to leave for their respective destinations.
It was previously reported that nearly all regions took anticipatory measures related to the large numbers of people still traveling by various modes of conveyance, including sea transport, to return to their hometowns during this pandemic period.
Apart from the methods of preventing COVID-19 transmission as described by Yusri, several regions have prepared social aid for residents impacted by the COVID-19 outbreak. Those working in other regions and forced to return home for losing their jobs are also among the targets of aid distribution. A number of institutions contribute to this initiative.
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At present the provincial administration of Yogyakarta is calculating the number of residents eligible for aid. Data on recipients are based on civil registry numbers. Yogyakarta Regional Secretary Kadarmanta Baskara Aji said the total of social aid recipients was under discussion.
“We are synchronizing data. The social aid fund comes from different sources with their own mechanisms,” he said at the Yogyakarta Governor’s Office on Monday (20/4/2020). This social aid is derived from the Yogyakarta regional budget, regency and city budgets, the Social Affairs Ministry and the Villages, Disadvantaged Regions and Transmigration Ministry. Initial data refer to 125,000 families as recipients of social aid from the Social Affairs Ministry for three months (April-June) worth Rp600,000 per family.
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Acting Sidoarjo regent Nur Achmad Syaifuddin (left) checks food aid packages on 20 April 2020 for distributing to low-income families.
Around 76,000 families haven’t yet received social aid from the current program. However, the number is reduced to about 40,000 families after a verification of data from the Yogyakarta Social Affairs Office and the Social Affairs Ministry. At the regency level, Sidoarjo (East Java) started distributing aid on Monday (20/4/2020). The distribution of packages worth Rp40.5 billion was meant for 135,572 families living in 18 districts.
Sidoarjo Deputy Regent Nur Achmad Syaifuddin said the distribution of packages of basic necessities was part of the regency administration’s effort to lessen economic and social impacts on the pre-welfare community. “The pre-welfare community based on Sidoarjo Social Affairs Office data is composed of 135,000 families,” said Nur. The packages of basic needs distributed each contained 5 kg of rice, 1 liter of cooking oil, 2 kg of granulated sugar and 10 packs of instant noodles worth Rp150,000.
We don’t discriminate against any ethnicity, religion, race or group.
Several parties help the funding of social aid, including private companies, religious institutions and the Indonesian Military (TNI) and National Police. The Navy’s Marine Corps, for instance, in all regions simultaneously doles out packages of staple food, lunch boxes and face masks. “This is in line with the instruction of the TNI Commander to help surrounding communities,” said Marine Corps Commandant Maj. Gen. Suhartono.
The same is done by the TNI and National Police in some densely populated zones of Jakarta, such as Cilincing, North Jakarta. They have opened communal kitchens. The Ansor Islamic Youth Movement joins hands with various circles to provide aid for communities. Ansor General Chairman Yaqut Cholil Qoumas said his organization and several philanthropists distributed aid through the Indonesia Peduli dan Bersatu (Indonesia Cares and United) movement.
“We put aside all differences in the effort to help fellow citizens. We don’t discriminate against any ethnicity, religion, race or group,” he added. The movement has been followed by the Archbishopric of Pontianak, Landak Bersatu Foundation, Penamas Mulia Foundation and some private companies. Their aid is contained in packages of staple food. So far they have gathered 3,450 packages ready for distribution.
Policemen collect health forms from new arrivals on 20 April 2020 at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Tangerang, Banten. The police screened 158 Indonesians arriving from Bangkok, including migrant workers, none of who showed symptoms of Covid-19.
The aid is allotted through the network of Barisan Ansor Serbaguna (Banser), a youth wing of Nahdlatul Ulama. Banser’s data on poor people are trusted because they live amid these communities. A representative of Penamas Mulia and Landak Bersatu Foundations, Ditto Santoso, said the Covid-19 pandemic problem should be faced together.
The Protestant Church of Maluku has begun assisting its congregation affected by Covid-19 through economic empowerment and psychological guidance. Despite its limited resources, the attempts of the church with a congregation of 527,328 people in the two provinces can help relieve the execution of government tasks.
General Secretary of the Maluku Protestant Church Synod’s Daily Executive Assembly Minister Elifas Tomix Maspaitella said in Ambon that church volunteers were given an operational supporting role in field activity. The structure of volunteers goes down to the lowest level, scattered over 762 congregational communities.
Anticipating exodus
In connection with the flow of exodus travelers and homecoming residents from other regions, North Sumatera applies a tight hygienic protocol. Residents returning home are asked to isolate themselves at home. Today the number of patients with positive Covid-19 in North Sumatra reached 106 and patients under surveillance total 148.
“The hygienic protocol is imposed on all entry gates of North Sumatra and regencies/cities. All residents from other regions and abroad are recorded and monitored,” said a spokesman for the North Sumatra Covid-19 Control Acceleration Task Force, Aris Yudhariansyah. Kristofel Sinaga, 24, a local resident coming from Jakarta, said he was forced to return to his village in North Tapanuli regency because his office was closed for two months.
A health worker in a hazmat suit disinfects Indonesian migrant workers who have recently returned from Malaysia on 9 April 2020 before they are admitted to quarantine at Soewondo Air Base in Medan, North Sumatra.
Upon arrival at Silangit Airport, Kristofel was examined by officers. All passengers had their body temperature checked and were asked to fill out health forms. Reaching his home, Kristofel isolated himself right away. In Kuningan, West Java, the regency administration keeps tightening control over homecoming residents, especially those from Covid-19 epidemic epicenters. These arrivals are examined in border areas and villages. The Cirebon regency administration only instructs homecoming residents to isolate themselves at home for two weeks.
Homecoming residents have been examined in five border areas of Kuningan, West Java, since 25 March. Besides having their origins and destinations recorded, their body temperature is also checked and they are told to wash their hands with soap. Until Monday, 61,452 residents returned to their villages, mostly coming from Jakarta and its vicinity.
At Bakauheni Port, South Lampung, officers provide online ticket purchase guidance for exodus travelers from Java. This is meant to anticipate any crowding of these travelers at ticket sale counters that may spread the coronavirus.
(NCA/NIK/EDN/PDS/FRN/NSA/IKI/VIO)
