Speaker of the House of Representatives (DPR) Puan Maharani has urged the government to disseminate all the policies that have been issued for handling the COVID-19 pandemic to prevent confusion among the public.

“The government should disseminate the adopted regulations with one voice so that they can be implemented together,” Maharani said at the parliamentary complex in Jakarta on Monday after attending the annual session of the People’s Consultative Assembly (MPR) and the joint session of the House of Representatives (DPR) and the Regional Representatives Council (DPD).

Earlier in her speech at the Plenary Meeting, she had observed that DPR’s supervision had found the policies taken by the government lacking in information dissemination and unsustainable.

“Therefore, I urge the government to be solid in disseminating its policies with one voice so that we can implement them together,” she remarked.

Earlier, President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) had emphasized that the tightening and easing of mobility is not an inconsistent policy, but a way to find the best balance between maintaining people’s health and economic interests.

“The tightening and relaxing of public movement restrictions, for instance, must be imposed on a weekly basis with reference to the current data. It may be perceived as an ever-changing policy, an inconsistent policy,” he noted in his state address at the annual session at the parliamentary complex.

However, that is precisely what the government must do to find a balance between public health and economic interests amid the pandemic, Jokowi said.

“Since the virus is constantly transforming and mutating, its handling should be done with adaptive strategies,” he emphasized.

Source: Antara News