The queue showing up (photo) at Soekarno-Hatta Airport (Tangerang, Banten) Yesterday 5/14.

Physical Distancing Protocols in Soekarno-Hatta Airport

The queue showing up (photo) at Soekarno-Hatta Airport (Tangerang, Banten) Yesterday 5/14. Immediately, this photo take the big response by media social’s user when during this quarantine, that the Indonesian Government declared the policy as coronavirus is overwhelming.

Responding to the news, Febri Toga Simatupang as manager of communication Angkasa Pura II said that the crowding of passengers occurred at 4 a.m., and was caused by an influx of passengers coming for morning flights were scheduled between 6 a.m. and 8 a.m.

In the statement, the passengers were lining up to get all their flight documents checked as additional requirements, such as health documents from a hospital or clinic, or negative COVID-19 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test or rapid test result, as well as a return ticket, are required to fly during the currently indefinite COVID-19 mitigation period.

Angkasa Pura II communications manager said that the queue at Soekarno Hatta Airport was caused by the passengers seeking to get their flight documents checked. Where there are at least three documents are needed to be completed by the passenger to get fly.

“The combination of the indiscretion of the Indonesian government and its opportunist and reckless citizens will make this country be the last to survive this pandemic,” Twitter user @adriansyahyasin posted on Thursday. There is also no evidence that physical distancing was being enforced during the queues.

This phenomenon usually happens in Indonesia during Eid Mubarak. Many immigrants and employees are going back home at least for the last day of Ramadan. The peak of Eid 2020 was predicted at May 21

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