Preventing Virus Spread from Those Insisting on ‘Mudik’

Even though the government had banned mudik from 6 to 17 May, many people were desperate to travel home using various modes of transportation.

KOMPAS/TATANG MULYANA SINAGA

Sebuah rumah disiapkan sebagai tempat karantina bagi pemudik yang nekat pulang kampung di Kelurahan Antapani Tengah, Kota Bandung, Jawa Barat, Jumat (7/5/2021).

Onda Irawan, 68, stopped his steps at an uninhabited house. The house will be used for isolating people who insist on participating in mudik (exodus) for this Lebaran (Idul Fitri). Local residents do not want travelers around who could endanger their safety.

The two-story house is located in RW (community unit) 006 of Antapani Tengah subdistrict in the city of Bandung, West Java. Two months earlier, the six-room house was inhabited by residents whose family members had been exposed to Covid-19. They were isolated in order to break the chain of transmission.