JAKARTA – To support the government in fighting the spread of Coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), the Indonesian Palm Oil Association (Gapki) has designed a Gapki protocol to prevent the pandemic outbreak in oil palm plantations.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe call on all members of central executive board and branch offices and member companies of Gapki to take an active role in preventing the spread of the pandemic through self-isolation, social distancing and other necessary steps, such as using maskers and obligation to clean hands,\u201d Gapki Chairman Joko Supriyono said in a written statement on Saturday (28 March 2020).<\/p>\n
The Gapki protocol consists of six main rules as guidelines to be implemented in oil palm plantations.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis protocol should at least avoid the spread of Covid-19 pandemic to the oil palm plantations, and ensure that plantations\u2019 workers are not infected with the disease, so that plantations\u2019 activities and production are kept proceeding,\u201d Gapki Executive Director Mukti Sardjono said.<\/p>\n
Gapki has socialized the protocol in 13 branch offices of Gapki in Aceh, North Sumatera, West Sumatera, South Sumatera, Riau, Bengkulu, Jambi, East \u00a0Kalimantan, West Kalimantan, South \u00a0Kalimantan, Central Kalimantan, North Kalimantan, and Sulawesi.<\/p>\n
The six-rules of Gapki protocol to prevent the Covid-19 in oil palm plantations are as follows:<\/p>\n
First: Environmental hygiene and health checking<\/strong><\/p>\n Second, tightening people flow in entrances<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2013 Entrance to plantation areas. Third, \u00a0prevent\/reduce briefings, roll-calls, and other kinds of get-together.<\/strong><\/p>\n Fourth,\u00a0 provide hand-washing facilities in all entrances.<\/strong><\/p>\n Workers in plantations are also required to wash their hands. It should be conducted when the workers go in divisions\/sections, or when they return from plantation areas to divisions\u2019 housing complexes or other sections.<\/p>\n Fifth, set up Covid-19 command posts<\/strong><\/p>\n Covid-19 pandemic is not over yet. We hope all oil palm plantation companies can set up Covid-19 Command Posts in every plantation area, task forces in residential areas and palm oil mills by optimizing existing clinics and medical units.<\/p>\n The Covid-19 command posts can provide the following services:<\/p>\n \u2013 Providing maskers; The functions of task forces in division residential areas\/PKA include:<\/p>\n \u2013 Monitor the flows of workers and guests into and out of the residential areas. Sixth, urge staffs and workers not to do \u201cmudik\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n All staffs and plantation workers are encouraged not to do \u201cmudik\u201d (tradition of traveling to one\u2019s native places)\u00a0 during this year Idul Fitri celebration. This is intended to prevent the spread of<\/p>\n Covid-19 from unknown sources. During the fasting month of Ramadhan, the public are also asked to avoid getting together with many people in mass tarawih or in breaking of the fast together.<\/p>\n Featured image: ayobandung.com<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" JAKARTA – To support the government in fighting the spread of Coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), the Indonesian Palm Oil Association (Gapki) has designed a Gapki protocol to prevent the pandemic outbreak in oil palm plantations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16558,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","neve_meta_reading_time":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3710,3708,3709],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-info-activity","category-publication","category-recent-news"],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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\n\u2013 Entrance to plantation offices and palm oil mills.
\n\u2013 Entrance to residential areas<\/p>\n\n
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\n\u2013 Providing soaps and disinfectants;
\n\u2013 Checking health of workers, particularly those showing symptoms of cough and fever;
\n\u2013 Quickly inform Covid-19 posts in referral hospitals available in respective regions, if there is any case of Covid-19 to allow for quick treatment;
\n\u2013 Information on Covid-19 can be accessed through WA application from the information center of Covid-19 powered by Kemenkoinfo RI: https:\/\/t.co\/JhYfzU6bCM. (type \u201chalo\u201d or \u201cselamat malam\u201d (Good Night) and it will be automatically answered).
\n\u2013 The Covid-19 command posts should also help check the health of people around the plantation areas<\/p>\n
\n\u2013 Report to Covid-19 command posts if there is any people showing symptoms of sickness.
\n\u2013 Conduct public campaigns on the importance of preserving health and take preventive actions against the disease (can be implemented through\u00a0 cooperation with the nearest public health centers\/polyclinics (Puskesmas\/ Poliklinik).<\/p>\n