PT Freeport Indonesia Disseminates Information to Community on Prevention and Transmission of Covid-19

18 April 2020

PT Freeport Indonesia (PTFI) has been actively disseminating information to the Kamoro and Amungme communities in the Mimika Regency on the rapid spreading of the coronavirus (Covid 19) as a part of its commitment to adhere to the policies of the Central, the Papua Provincial and Mimika Regional Governments including its own company policy on mitigating the pandemic.

Disseminating information to the Kamoro community had already started at the end of March in the villages in the watersheds of the Kamoro, Ajkwa, Mawati and Minajerwi rivers (DASKAMM) and is still continuing.

Targets of dissemination are the areas on the level of RT/ RW (neighborhood  /district level) in Kampung Tipuka, East Mimika District; Kampung Ayuka, Far Eastern Mimika District; Kampung Nawaripi, New Mimika District; Kampung Koperapoka and Kampung Nayaro.

Dissemination activities are carried out in cooperation with the New Mimika District Administration and Task Force to Combat Covid 19. The five kampungs (villages) are part of a foster area (community) of PTFI and a Kamoro community settlement, Dissemination is carried out by the field team of PTFI’s Community Relations Department in cooperation with the administrations of the five villages. Dissemination activities among the Amungme community are centered on the settlements in the lowlands like Mile 32, SP2, Jalan Baru and irrigation areas where the Amungme population lives which have migrated from the villages in the highlands ((Banti, Opitawak and Kimbeli, Tsinga and also the Hoya valley).

Efforts to prevent the spread of the virus in the highlands are pursued by the local administration which has enforced travel restrictions on the community. The dissemination activities consist a.o of community counseling through simple but important steps on how to prevent transmissions which can lead to a Covid-19 pandemic in PTFI’s foster areas.

The people are shown through bodily motions how to maintain cleanliness and how to remain healthy on an individual and communal basis, how to use disinfectant sprays in various public facilities like the village administration office, smart houses, welfare offices, houses of worship, “ojek” (taxi bikes) stations, integrated posts, and private homes. Still in the framework of dissemination PTFI has also distributed to the local community sterilizing liquid, face masks and soap to wash one’s hands and body.

http://www.salampapua.com/2020/04/pt-freeport-indonesia-sosialisasikan.html

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