The government cut the collective leave by three days at the end of this year. Dec. 28-30, 2020, is no longer a substitute for the Idul Fitri 2020 holidays.
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AHMAD ARIF/DEONISIA ARLINTA Graceca Dewi
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JAKARTA, KOMPAS — The government cut the collective leave by three days at the end of this year. Dec. 28-30, 2020, is no longer a substitute for the Idul Fitri 2020 holidays. Thus, on that day all employees are expected to continue working as usual.
The holidays at the end of this year will take place on Dec. 24-25, 2020, which is a Christmas holiday. The next holiday will be on Dec. 31, 2020 as a substitute for this year\'s Idul Fitri holidays and will be continued on Jan. 1, 2021 as a New Year\'s holiday.
The reduction of collective leave is to reduce mobility to prevent the transmission of Covid-19. This policy needs to be followed by monitoring and increasing public awareness of implementing health protocols.
"The holidays have been trimmed. People taking advantage of the year-end holiday season are advised to use it smartly and wisely, prioritize health, prioritize personal and family safety, so that they can help prevent the transmission of Covid-19," said Coordinating Human Development and Culture Minister Muhadjir Effendy, Tuesday (1/12/2020), after a ministerial meeting on the follow-up to the President\'s Direction regarding Change to Public Holidays and Collective Leave.
The holiday schedule has been mutually agreed upon by the relevant ministries/agencies, including the Coordinating Human Development and Culture Ministry, the Home Affairs Ministry, the Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform Ministry, the Manpower Ministry, the Religious Affairs Ministry, the National Police, the National Disaster Mitigation Agency, and the Presidential Staff.
The secretary-general of the Manpower Ministry, Anwar Sanusi, said the decision on the collective leave for each worker would follow the final agreement formulated by the government. "The collective leave has been reduced. However, we will return this decision to the agreement between the worker and the employer," he said.
Supervision
The chairman of the Association of Indonesian Public Health Experts, Ede Surya Darmawan, is of the opinion that reducing year-end holidays needs to be accompanied by increased supervision and public awareness of implementing the health protocols. Even though the holidays have been reduced, people still have the potential to trigger the crowding so that they can cause the transmission of Covid-19. "The previous holidays have triggered a spike in transmission cases," he said.
Data from the Covid-19 Mitigating Task Force, as of Dec. 1, 2020, there were an addition of 5,092 new cases and 136 deaths. Thus, there are a total of 543,975 cases of Covid-19 in the country and 17,081 deaths due to the disease.
The previous holidays have triggered a spike in transmission cases,
Based on the zoning map for the risk of Covid-19 transmission, regencies/cities that are in the red zone have almost doubled to 50 regencies/cities this week from the previous 28 regencies/cities. Currently, 98 percent of regencies/cities in Indonesia have been affected by Covid-19.
Government Spokesperson for Mitigating Covid-19 Wiku Adisasmito said the data on the increase in cases indicated that transmission was increasing, while the community\'s discipline in implementing the health protocols was loosening. "This situation should be a whip for us to continue to make improvement," he said.
Lateness
The results of a study by the research team of the Eijkman-Oxford Clinical Research Unit (EOCRU) with the Jakarta Health Office showed that during the first five months of the Covid-19 pandemic, the average of Covid-19 patients who died in Jakarta was 11 days after the detection of symptoms. The mortality rate for children under five years of age due to Covid-19 in the country is also high.
These two conditions, among others, are caused by delays in early detection and treatment of patients admitted to the hospital. This study also involved researchers from the School of Medicine, University of Indonesia, and Imperial College London.
Henry Surendra, an EOCRU researcher, who is also the first author of this study, said that the analysis was carried out on the data of 4,265 adults and children confirmed by Covid-19 who were treated in 55 referral hospitals. The results of the study are in the process to be published in the scientific journal, but they can already be accessed on the medRxiv website.
The study found that the pattern of the patient disease in Jakarta reflects global conditions. Patients usually come with several symptoms of fever, cough, malaise and/or breathing difficulties, and nearly 40 percent had a clinical diagnosis of pneumonia on admission. Overall mortality reached 12 percent or 497 of 4,265 cases.