Jakarta – The Jakarta City Jaya Cops dispersed five million face masks throughout the capital city and suburbs of Bekasi, Depok, and Tangerang as part of a project to promote donning of masks here on Thursday.
” Today, the Jakarta City Jaya Cops dispersed five million masks at the same time at 13 Authorities Resorts under its jurisdiction,” said Commissioner Yusri Yunus, representative for the capital city’s police.
Provincial authorities across Indonesia also dispersed face masks all at once, he pointed out.
The mask circulation activities were broadcast via live streaming from the City Jaya square.
The event was gone to by Deputy Chief of Personnel of the Army, Lt. Gen. Moch Fachrudin, Deputy Chief of Police, Commissioner General Gatot Eddy Pramono, and head of the National Catastrophe Mitigation Firm (BNPB), Doni Monardo, State Enterprises Minister Erick Thohir, and Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan, to name a few.
The campaign was dubbed ‘Simultaneous Distribution of Masks, Physical Distancing Campaign, Avoid Crowds, Wear a Mask, and Serene and Safe Regional Head Elections (Pilkada) 2020’.
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Previously, Airlangga Hartarto, chairman of the Committee for COVID-19 Handling and National Economic Recovery, said that the government is continuing to carry out activities under the 3M campaign, which promotes wearing masks, cleaning hands, and preventing crowds, to avoid COVID-19 transmission.
” Concerning the next 3M project, in accordance with the instructions and in keeping with the project on using masks, we begin with September 7, 2020, which is today, until October 6, 2020, with (the project bearing) the tagline, ‘Let’s Keep a Range and Avoid Crowds,'” Hartarto, who is simultaneously the Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs, specified at an online press conference stemming from the President’s Workplace on Monday (September 7).
He held the press fulfill after going to a plenary cabinet meeting on ‘Health Management and Economic Healing for Conditioning Reform in 2021’, which was led by President Joko Widodo (Jokowi).
” For the next project from October 7 to November 6, 2020, (the tag line) will be ‘Let’s Wash Hands and Usage Soap’ as October 15, 2020, is Worldwide Hand Washing Day,” he exposed.
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