Together Against Pandemic (The Covid-19 Task Force of Regional Disaster Management Agency of Yogyakarta Special Region)

Monday, 26 October 2020
by Sarlota Wantaar

 

 

The prevention of Covid 19 inevitably requires the determination of one heart of all people in the society to fight it along with all the consequences in the New Normal system, the new living order. Stube HEMAT Yogyakarta as a student assistance institution in Yogyakarta has program focusing on Health Problems in Indonesia and had a discussion with BPBD (Regional Disaster Management Agency) of Yogyakarta Special Teritory Province (DIY) which is responsible as the Operation Support Post of The Task Force Handling Covid-19 in the Special Region of Yogyakarta at Pendopo Wisma Pojok Indah, Condongcatur on October 24, 2020. Twenty students from various regions in Indonesia attended the discussion. In the opening session,  Rev. Bambang Sumbodo, board-in-charge of Stube HEMAT, revealed that the Covid-19 pandemic had a negative impact, however, the positive impact is that humans are forced back into nature because nature awaits us, humans and nature have a close relationship like human relationship with God, and human with human. It triggers individual and shared awareness of how to behave cleanly and healthy because health becomes everyone's need both spiritually and physically.

 

 

The material on Adaptation of New Habits as a pandemic response was presented by Endro Sambogo from BPBD DIY Quick Reaction Team. He explained how to live in a new normal during pandemic conditions. Slowly the activity of the community is starting to move but it can not be the same as the situation before the pandemic, this means that the community must have a new life behavior now, a new environment and a new mindset. New order with new habits and behaviors are based on adaptation to get used to this clean and healthy living behavior that’s called new normal, by washing hands with soap, wearing a mask when we are going out, having a safe distance and not being in the crowds. To realize the new normal scenario, the government has now partnered with relevant parties including community leaders and experts to formulate protocols or standard of operational procedure to ensure people can re-engage, but remain safe from COVID-19. This protocol is not only in economics, but also in education and religion life, depending on the epidemological aspects of each region, so that the additional number of positive cases can be suppressed.

 

Endro explained the 'mourning' activity (visiting when someone dies), that in fact the dangerous or risky conditions were not the bodies but from the interaction of family members and mourners, as well as the crowds in the cemetery. The susceptible condition also occurs when people exposed to the virus have congenital diseases, such as hypertension, heart, asthma, lung and some other diseases. Currently, awareness needs to be increased due to the presence of a symptomless person (OTG), i.e. a person who has been exposed to the virus but does not show symptoms of pain because he/she has strong immunity and feels fine. OTG will infect others who have weak immune, so inevitably everyone should wear masks, wash their hands, keep their distance and avoid crowds. It should be done in a disciplined way.

 

Such opportunity to have dialogue with the person who is directly involved to handle Covid 19 in the DIY stirred participants to express their curiosity about people who were exposed to the virus but showed no symptoms of pain. There are also people who have excessive anxiety of being exposed to the virus so that the person over acts.  Endro revealed that Covid 19 is a flu virus that easily infects humans and the virus also continues to mutate so that Covid 19 has no anti-virus. When a person is exposed to this virus but the condition of immunity is strong, the person will not hurt, but he/she can transmit to others. So, we must be conscious to implement clean and healthy behaviors in order to protect others. Related to over actions, it happens because people's understanding is not complete about this pandemic, that actually this virus does not fatally cause death, but the congenital diseases that exacerbate the condition, so that there are complications. Worse, the influential media builds a scary 'image' of this Covid 19 case.

 

 

At the end of the session, Endro reminded participants as young people and students who have learned more about the Covid 19 pandemic, should apply new habits, clean and healthy living behaviors, while providing proper education about Covid 19 to people nearby, such as at the boarding house, at the campus, and for their families, so that the spread of Covid 19 can be suppressed and the community can do activities comfortably. ***





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