Approaching the last 10 days of Ramadan, the community has begun to prepare everything they need to welcome Eid al-Fitr 1442 Hijri. It has caused several shopping centers, such as Tanah Abang Market, Central Jakarta to be crowded with visitors, even though it is still in the COVID-19 pandemic.

We will anticipate all the potential for a spike in active cases

To anticipate unwanted thing, the Jakarta administration has taken a quick response by coordinating with each head of Perumda Pasar Jaya. It aims to make each market manager tighten monitoring in order to curb the active cases of COVID-19.

City Secretary Marullah Matali disclosed that his party had coordinated with the Jakarta BP BUMD to instruct the Perumda Pasar Jaya to remain operate markets in Jakarta. Nevertheless, visitors should still adhere to health protocols.

"We will anticipate all the potential for a spike in active cases, such as activities in every market leading up to Eid. From today onwards, the personnel will be alerted to direct visitors and control people who break health protocols. The point is every visitor must wear a mask to enter the market," he expressed, as quoted by Jakarta PPID's press release.

Perumda Pasar Jaya Director Arief Nasrudin explained that he was about to conduct monitoring evaluations and rearrange various steps in a bid to control visitors in each market, especially Tanah Abang Market.

"We emphasize that there is no prohibition against shopping at the market. We will only rearrange the monitoring scheme, thus there are no crowds that have the potential to create new clusters in the market area," he explained.

His party would regulate technical monitoring related to the number of officers to be placed in each market. It was done in order to minimize health protocol violators, as Jakarta was struggling to contain the spread of the COVID-19.

"It is also done throughout the market, so we will act decisively against those who violate the rules," he closed.