Jakarta –
A number of officers use personal protective equipment (APD) visit asylum seekers Demonstrating Afghan citizen in front of the UNHCR office, Central Jakarta. Officers will conduct swab tests on the refugees.
Monitoring detik.com at the location, Monday (24/8/2021), at 09.50 WIB, a number of officers arrived wearing full PPE. Officials have warned that they will carry out swab tests on the protesters.
Police warn that the COVID-19 pandemic situation is not over yet. The masses are advised to disperse so that the crowd does not become a Corona cluster.
“All ladies and gentlemen are advised that this is still the Corona virus pandemic. Therefore, to avoid the transmission of the corona virus, it is expected to disperse from the crowd. Jakarta is still PPKM level 3,” said an officer through a loudspeaker.
The officers also warned that they would do a swab test. WN Afghanistan Those who are reactive for COVID will be taken to the Kemayoran Athlete’s Wisma.
“We will do swab antigens to protesters. We will take the positive ones to the Wisma Atlet to be quarantined,” he said.
Mass demonstration since 09.00 WIB. They brought a number of posters. One of them reads ‘We are mentally exhausted by long processing times’.
The Afghan citizen also unfurled a large banner with the words ‘UNHCR Indonesia please do not violate the work procedures, the 1951 convention and the 1967 protocol. Stop the inhumane policies towards asylum seekers in Indonesia. We need displacement because we live in misery’.
Several police officers were seen guarding the scene. Right now they were chanting ‘We want justice’.
Meanwhile, the traffic flow in the location looks congested creeping. Vehicles run slowly when passing in front of the location demo.
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