Calon Kepala Daerah Diajak Adu Gagasan Tekan Penularan Covid-19

Menteri Dalam Negeri (Mendagri) Tito Karnavian mengajak calon kepala daerah 11 kabupaten di Provinsi Papua yang mengikuti Pilkada serentak, agar menjadikan momentum Pilkada untuk beradu gagasan menekan penularan Covid-19.

Diantaranya dengan membagi-bagikan masker maupun hand sanitizer secara masif kepada masyarakat pemilih guna, menarik dukungan suara. 

“Intinya momentum Pilkada kali ini kita balik, bukan jadi media penularan tapi justru menekan Covid-19 karena ada gerakan pembagian masker dan hand sanitizer untuk pemilih”. 

“Dengan begitu kita yakin gerakan ini bisa mengurangi kurva penularan virus corona di Papua,” terang Mendagri Tito dalam konferensi pers, usai menghadiri rapat koordinasi kesiapan Pilkada serentak 2020, Jumat (10/7/2020), di Jayapura.

Tito berharap dengan menjadikan penanggulangan Covid-19 sebagai isu utama, isu primordialisme (kesukuan yang berlebihan), kekerasan, keagamaan dan lainnya, diharapkan dapat ditinggalkan. 

Dengan demikian, semua kontestan Pilkada bisa sama-sama dengan pemerintah menekan laju penyebaran virus corona.   

“Contohnya kalau pemerintah daerah dalam menangani Covid-19 kurang maksimal kan bisa jadi ‘senjata’ bagi calon kepala daerah lain menyerang petahana. Sehingga petahana kemudian lebih sungguh-sungguh dengan segala sumber dayanya, menekan penyebaran covid-19”.

“Intinya kita ingin dengan Pilkada selain bisa membantu menekan laju Covid-19, tetapi bisa mendorong stimulasi ekonomi, karena ada uang yang beredar. Baik dari APBD, APBN tetapi juga dari kontestan yang akan mengeluarkan biaya untuk saksi dan kampanye. Dan ini tentu sangat baik pemulihan ekonomi daerah,” pungkasnya.

Diketahui, 11 kabupaten di Papua yang menggelar Pilkada serentak, yakni Keerom, Supiori, Waropen, Mamberamo Raya, Pegunungan Bintang, Yahukimo, Yalimo, Merauke, Boven Digoel, Asmat dan Nabire.

The Minister of Home Affairs, Tito Karnavian invites the regional heads candidate of 11 regencies in Papua Province to take part in the Local Leaders Election simultaneously, to make the momentum of the elections to collide with the idea of suppressing the Covid-19 transmission.

Among them by distributing masks and hand sanitizers massively to the voters to attract voting support.

"The point of the elections momentum is not as a contagion media but instead pressed Covid-19 because there is a movement to distribute masks and hand sanitizers to voters.”

"So we believe this movement can reduce the transmission curve of Coronavirus in Papua," explained The Minister of Home Affairs, Tito in a press conference, after attending the Local Leaders Election Readiness Coordination meeting 2020, Friday (10/7/2020), in Jayapura.

Tito hopes that by making the Covid-19 countermeasure the main issue, the issue of primordialism (excessive tribalism), violence, religion and others, is expected to be abandoned.

Thus, all local election contestants can be equally with the Government to suppress the rate of spread of coronavirus. 

"For example, if the local government in handling the Covid-19 is less than the maximum can be a ' weapon ' for the candidate of the head of other regional attack. So that the incumbent then became more fervent with all its resources, hitting the spread of Covid-19 ".

"The point we want with the elections in addition can help suppress the rate of Covid-19, but can encourage economic stimulation, because there is money in circulation. From the Local government budget:, the state budget but also of the contestants who will be issuing fees for witnesses and campaigns. And this is certainly a very good economic recovery area, "he concluded.

It is known, 11 regencies in Papua held simultaneous elections, namely Keerom, Supiori, Waropen, Mamberamo Raya, Bintang Mountains, Yahukimo, Yalimo, Merauke, Boven Digoel, Asmat and Nabire.