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THE new procedure for international arrival at Soekarno-Hatta (Soetta) Airport carried out by the Air Task Force for Handling COVID-19 together with PT Angkasa Pura II and stakeholders is considered a solution to prevent the spread of COVID-19 from abroad.
According to the Director of Operations and Services of AP II Muhamad Wasid (2/5) said that this new procedure can be carried out properly by all aircraft passengers arriving from abroad. Since it was implemented on April 30, 2021, procedures can be implemented properly to ensure that international arrival requirements are met by Indonesians and foreigners arriving from abroad.
“We are grateful to aircraft passengers who have undergone the international arrival procedure properly. The new procedure is also expected to support the smooth quarantine process for airplane passengers at a predetermined location, either at the Pademangan Athletes House, or in hotels,” he said.
Meanwhile, Chairman of the COVID-19 Handling Task Force, Lieutenant General Doni Monardo, said this new procedure was a solution to ensure that international arrival requirements were met by plane passengers from abroad. The new procedure is also expected to be implemented at other airports that receive aircraft passengers from abroad.
“I ask all other airports that accept the arrival of Indonesian Migrant Workers and foreigners to imitate Soekarno-Hatta Airport (regarding procedures for international passenger arrival),” said Doni Monardo.
Likewise, Executive GM Soekarno-Hatta Airport Agus Haryadi said AP II was ready to support the facilities to carry out this procedure. We have prepared location facilities and so on in the terminal building for officers of the Port Health Office of the Ministry of Health to validate passenger health documents, then passenger data collection facilities by the Airport Police, as well as other facilities.
Agus added, as it is known, passengers from abroad must comply with health protocols such as showing a COVID-19 test result letter and quarantine in accordance with Circular Number 8 of 2021 concerning International Travel Health Protocol during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Number 9 of 2021 concerning Places of Quarantine, Isolation and RT-PCR Obligations for Indonesian Citizens Who Travel International.
Starting April 25, 2021 travelers from India are prohibited from entering Indonesia. Indonesian citizens who have lived or visited India within 14 days are allowed to enter Indonesia with strict health protocols, one of which is quarantine for 14 days. Through a new procedure that has been implemented since April 30, 2021, passengers from abroad arriving at Soekarno-Hatta Airport will go through 9 check points to process their arrivals.
The check points are: (1). Passengers fill in their personal and flight data through the hotel reservation application in the international arrival area, (2). Health document examination by the Ministry of Health’s, (3). International passenger data collection related to quarantine locations, (4). Passengers undergo an immigration process, (5). Passengers take baggage in the baggage claim area, (6). Passengers undergo a customs process, (7). Passengers register at the hotel help desk for the quarantine process, (8). Passengers again undergo identification data and quarantine locations conducted by the Airport Police, (9). Passengers are picked up by buses to go to the quarantine location with a single pick up point concept. Buses that are allowed to pick up are only those that have been designated. [antaranews]
