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Indonesia is now relying on a COVID-19 app, but does it actually work?
After conducting a trial run of the app, which was required for vaccinated people to access certain public facilities in designated regions, the government is planning to apply the system across Indonesia.
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Virus control: Visitors will be allowed to enter a shopping mall after being screened and labeled with either green or yellow barcodes. The government is using the PeduliLindungi app to screen people in various public spaces as part of its attempt to curb COVID-19. (Kompas.com/Garry Lotulung)
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he government is relying on the PeduliLindungi mobile application for digital contact tracing to help control COVID-19 while allowing people to go about their activities with the easing of public activity restrictions (PPKM).
After conducting a trial run of the app, which was required for vaccinated people to access certain public facilities in designated regions, the government is planning to apply the system across Indonesia.
“The [implementation of] digital-based health protocols via PeduliLindungi is key to preventing a recurrence of the difficult times we faced in July," Coordinating Maritime Affairs and Investment Minister Luhut Pandjaitan said this week, referring to the second surge of infections that was fueled by a more virulent Delta variant and devastated the country.
How does it work?
PeduliLindungi is a digital health data system that will access the user's location every 10 minutes to create a history of travel and close contacts.
It assigns each user a color code that dictates whether the person may enter public places or not. Black is for those who recently tested positive for COVID-19 or have been in close contact with an infected person; red for people who are healthy but have not been vaccinated; yellow for healthy people who have received their first dose of the vaccine; and green for fully vaccinated people who are healthy.
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