Kominfo Cooperates with Telkom and Gojek to Extend the Reach of the Care and Protect Application
JAKARTA – The government, through the Ministry of Communication and Information (Kemkominfo), will work with PT Telkom Indonesia and Gojek to expand the range of use of the PeduliLindung application.
This is done in line with the addition of several new features in the application for protection, namely health passport or certificates obtained from the results rapid test and swab test. The data will be stored in the PeduliL Protect application, making it very easy to use.
“This is one of the basic infrastructure from New Normal. Everyone who wants to work must be checked whether he or she has passed the COVID-19 test. Everyone who wants to board the plane will also be checked, “said Deputy Minister of BUMN, Budi Gunadi Sadikin during an online press conference, Tuesday, June 30.
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According to Budi, function screening this health will be one of the basic infrastructures of policy implementation New Normal. Therefore the application of this application will be very useful if it can be integrated with other platforms.
“Technology platform such as Telkom and Gojek can greatly help accelerate development, formation and preparation of infrastructure instruments New Normal this, “said Budi.
Budi also explained that later health passport whose data is already in the PeduliL Protects application, can be e-passport and can accelerate the return of economic activity as well as the community.
President Director of Telkom, Ririek Adriansyah, also strives to always develop the PeduliL Protect application to prevent the spread of COVID-19. For information, this application is also made by Telkom.
“We continue support Kominfo to provide one tool in overcoming COVID-19. Together with Gojek, with this application people can easily bring test results, do not need to use a physical card, so just use the application, “said Ririek.
Kominfo Teleconference (doc. Kominfo)
In addition, the Head of the BNPB Pusdalops, Bambang Surya Putra said that this application would later reveal the identity of the user, where they could easily reveal the results of the COVID-19 test.
“This is the government’s commitment to protect the public from COVID-19. By means of a pentahelix, the relationship between the government, business and business actors, and the media must work together,” said Bambang.
“This application can show the user’s identity by revealing the test results from the user. Later, if the user is found positive, the data confidentiality will be guaranteed,” said Bambang.
Bambang also asked all Indonesian people to download the Pedulil Protected application to protect others and get valid information from the government.
The same thing was also expressed by Gojek’s Chief Policy and Government Relations, Shinto E. Nugroho, who admitted that his platform really supports this collaboration. Because, he assumed that in the future, it would reduce the spread of COVID-19 throughout the country, when people realized the importance of their health status.
“We feel proud and happy when the Minister and the Director General invite us to collaborate together regarding PeduliLindung. This application is important because it is not only for protecting ourselves, but also for protecting those around us, ”explained Shinto.
Until now, the PeduliL Protected application has been downloaded approximately 4.1 million times for Android and iOS users. Although this number is not yet 5 percent of the total population in Indonesia.
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