Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan’s decision to extend the transitional large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) policy for another 14 days has raised mixed reactions from the public.
Griffith University epidemiologist Dicky Budiman said extending the PSBB was indeed part of Jakarta’s strategy to fight against the pandemic.
In addition to extending the restrictions, Dicky also suggested the city’s administration had to continue conducting tracing and tests, followed by isolation and self quarantine.
“Testing and tracing are the main strategies,” Dicky said as quoted by kompas.com on Wednesday, adding that the government should optimize the said strategy as the city could not only depend on the PSBB alone to end the outbreak.