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Originally Posted by fde83
Indonesia government will enter the first phase of a “new normal” era on 1 June by allowing industries and service providers to resume their operations in accordance with the newly announced COVID-19 health protocols.
Batam - New Normal, or the new life order will be run by the government. This is to adapt to the Covid-19 pandemic. Many things must continue to be carried out with the new normal order.
Acting Governor of the Riau Islands, Isdianto as well as Chairman of the Covid-19 Handling Task Force Kepri held a joint meeting with the regional leadership communication forum (Forkopimda), and the head of the city / regency.
The opening of economic activities, schools, campuses and offices during the Covid-19 pandemic needs to be done by adapting the new normal order. New normal will be implemented in a number of areas where the transmission rate is below one percent of the population.
The government realizes that Covid-19 cannot be eliminated, just like any other pre-existing disease. But Covid-19 can be controlled, the way to implement the correct health protocol.
Therefore, New Normal activities will be monitored by strict health protocols, and there will even be sanctions for those who violate them.
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Finally indonesia followed spore & msia to implement the phase of the new normal.
Every citizen is expected to practise this routine lifestyle until a vaccine is found which include social distancing, wear mask, scan app for contact tracing, no large gathering allowed, no shaking hands, etc.
However if wait till the covid pandemic to be completely over then to restart the economy, may cause unforeseen consequences because it has become a worldwide problem unlike the short term sars or ebola outbreak in certain region only.
What is more worrying is that as reflected in the covid statistic that the number of cases in most countries are still growing which implies that the curves of those countries still have not been flattened yet..despite the pandemic has been ongoing for the past 4 over months
Indonesia or maybe Batam cannot afford not to restart its economy or else the effects caused by the unemployment may be more damaging than the pandemic as bread & butter is essential for survival…
The new normal will also change the way people do their business from analog to digital and offline to online. Retail shop business may find difficult to sustain due to strong competition from online business. The pandemic has caused the reduction in buying power of the shoppers.
