Worthless Wordplay
The surge in Covid-19 cases practically crippled all the hospitals throughout the country. Bandying around new terms has made us forget the essential target.
Tempo
January 11, 2021
A GOVERNMENT busy making up wordplay is not a promising way to handle a contagion. After using the term “large-scale social restrictions,” or PSBB, it has now coined a new one, the “implementation of restrictions of community activity,” or PPKM. Moreover, curtailment of movement is imposed only in parts of Java and Bali.
Coordinating Minister for the Economy Airlangga Hartarto announced activity restrictions in Java
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