Malls Will Close at 5 PM, Market Activities Should Also Be Restricted!

Jakarta –

Mall closing at 5 pm is one of the leaks of rules in tightening socio-economic activities on policy Emergency PPKM. This policy will be taken to reduce the spike in COVID-19 cases.

Economists believe that apart from shopping at malls, trading activities in the market also need restrictions so that the government’s efforts to handle the COVID-19 pandemic are more effective.

“There needs to be restrictions as well. Even though the market is an essential place, the number of buyers must be limited so as not to cause crowds. Not only the market, I think vaccination queues must also be regulated so that new clusters do not arise. So there must be effective restrictions,” the Director of Celios (Center of Economic and Law Studies) Bhima Yudhistira, Wednesday (30/6/2031)..

Bhima said the policy would certainly affect economic growth. However, economists also stated that PPKM would be in vain if the transmission of COVID-19 was higher.

“In my opinion, if the daily cases do not experience a significant decline for emergency PPKM with a tighter scale, what will happen is that the economy will decline even more in the third quarter of 2021,” he explained.

Meanwhile, Managing Director of Political Economy and Policy Studies (PEPS) Anthony Budiawan also said the same thing. According to him, the lockdown option is better than the emergency PPKM.

“Operational restrictions will not be effective and the problem with the economy will get worse. Because the upper middle class doesn’t dare to go to the mall, especially if the cases don’t go down. PPKM will fail and it will be long, why two weeks of lockdown? two weeks will break the chain,” said Anthony.

Continue to the next page about the economist’s advice on Emergency PPKM.

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