People caught not wearing a face mask were given the option of laying down in a coffin instead of paying a fine or doing community service in Jakarta

Police in Jakarta have been ordered to stop using a controversial punishment for people who refuse to wear face masks.

The punishment saw those caught not wearing mask given the option of community service, a fine, or laying down in a fake coffin.

Those caught in Pasar Rebo, East Jakarta, were told to "contemplate" the potential health risk from their mistake by laying down in the coffin for several minutes on Wednesday and Thursday.

Santoso, the deputy head of Pasar Rebo subdistrict, claimed that the offenders had voluntarily opted to lay in the coffin rather than pay the fine or get community service.

“If they chose social work, they had to clean public facilities for at least one hour. When I asked why they didn’t pay the fine, they replied they didn’t have the money,” Santoso told Kompas news website earlier this week.

The controversial punishment was lifted yesterday (Friday) amid mounting criticisms.

East Jakarta public order agency head Budhy Novial said he had reprimanded the officers and told them to punish people not wearing masks according to the current regulations.

“I’ve reprimanded the officers [who imposed the fake coffin sanction] and urged them to punish violators according to the current regulations."
He said he hoped the fines and social work punishment would be sufficient to make residents stick to the rules to curb COVID-19 transmission.

Other districts in Jakarta have built mini coffin monuments that feature the death rate data to raise awareness about coronavirus.

According to the Jakarta Post, Indonesia is among the countries with the highest death rate among children, surpassing the United States as one of the world's worst-hit country by the pandemic.

Source: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/people-refusing-wear-face-masks-22633438

With our superstitions, this act will SCARE ANY NIGERIAN STRAIGHT!

Laws don't work in these parts anyways.

The tales we'll have when we come out of Covid ehn! The Tales of a Lost Year!

Mad one

This one is loud ooo




Posi oku?





Nigerians will comply immediately

Buhari is in serious Shock


It can’t happen here shaa , people go bust better cry oh

Savoring death while alive

E good for dem to take out time to imagine and practice how to be dead.

hmmm

Crazy stuff. . .

Trying to tell them death is their portion I guess

Maybe if coro doesn't scare you, the thought of death will

Lol Crazy and scary stuff.

Sometimes this kind of penalty will brimg sense back to the people. The reality of not using self-protecting equipment.

They told him to Taste how death feels

Nawao

Do Nigerians think COVID is gone?

Wearing face mask is now am easy way to be the odd one out. Some public places have started relaxing their “no-mask, no-entry” rules.

I have ordered two Uber rides and the drivers didn’t have face masks on.

What kind of fuckery is dis na .... Nigeria police shouldn’t try dis with us ooo

This one na reminder o...

Backward country....

Covid-19 stunt

After the punishment, local man must have either nightmares or sleep paralysis

Which kind expensive play be this one

Mad o

To what end? Is it so they can feel what it is like to die?

**chuckles ** funny people.

Masks are useless against Covid 19.

At least, they are enforcing the law of the land but in 9ja.....hmmm