The National Sports Week (PON) XX and National Paralympic Week (Peparnas) XVI Papua 2021, are just days away. Thousands of athletes and officials are certain to crowd the four clusters of national multi-event venues in Jayapura, Merauke and Mimika.

The thing that many people worry about is the transmission of coronavirus (COVID-19) during the two national events, considering the number of people who will visit Papua.

Various efforts have been made by the government, including encouraging COVID-19 vaccination to all athletes, officials and residents around the National Sports Week venue.

Not to be missed, the Department of Communication and Informatics (Kominfo) of Papua as the main supporting technical institution of multi-event National Sports Week XX and National Paralympic Week XVI also made a series of efforts.

One of them encourages the integration of Peduli Lindungi application managed by the Data Center and Technology team of the Ministry of Health with the committee of National Sports Week and National Paralympic Week application system.

This is as stated by the Head of Communication and Informatics Department of Papua, Jeri A. Yudianto by phone, Wednesday (7/28/2021) afternoon.

"We have just held a meeting with a team from the Data and Technology Center of the Ministry of Health, in Jakarta. In this meeting there was a discussion on the integration of National Sports Week and National Paralympic Week application system with Peduli Lindungi application system".

"Peduli Melindungi application system is essentially aimed at assisting relevant government agencies in tracking to stop the spread of COVID-19. So we encourage integration so that it can help stop the rate of spread and tracing of COVID-19 during National Sports Week and National Paralympic Week," he said.

Jeri added, Peduli Lindungi application system is now downloaded by millions of people in Indonesia. Therefore, this digital platform is considered very suitable to integrate with National Sports Week and National Paralympic Week application systems. 

It has the same spirit to control the spread of COVID-19 during the implementation of the national multi event.

"Not to mention there are requirements for contingents, organizing committees, media crews or other supporters to be able to enter the venue or non-venue of National Sports Week XX and National Paralympic Week XVI, which must follow the provisions that existed during the pandemic," he said.

Jeri hopes that the integration can be done in the third week of August 2021 or before the delegation registration meeting (DRM) phase of National Sports Week XX Papua. So that tracking efforts to stop the spread of COVID-19 during National Sports Week and National Paralympic Week, can be maximized. It is not yet certain when the application system integration time will start running. It's just that he pushed immediately, considering the time of implementation of the national multi event that is only counting the days.