The Health Law Research Unit of the Faculty of Law, Universitas Indonesia held a Health Law Webinar “State Responsibility for the Prevention and Control of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Review of 2015 International Health Regulations”, on Saturday, 19 September 2020, through a Zoom meeting. The Health Law Webinar presents speakers such as the Professor of FHUI, Prof. Dr. Anna Erliyana, S.H., M.H., Senior Advisor & Acting Director at WHO South-East Asia Region, Prof. dr. Tjandra Yoga Aditama Sp.P (K), MARS, DTM & H, DTCE, Professor of the Faculty of Public Health, University of Indonesia, Prof. dra, Fatma Lestari, M.Sc., Ph.D and FHUI Lecturer, Rizky Banyu, S.H., LL.M.
On the occasion, the Dean of FHUI, Dr. Edmon Makarim, S.Kom., S.H., LL.M. opens up the webinars.
“I hope the discussion which will run for the next 2 hours, runs smoothly and can provide contributions, knowledge, and input to all parties. Especially for the government, WHO representatives, hospitals, doctors, and all webinar participants. With this, let me open the webinar and discussion entitled “State Responsibility for the Prevention and Control of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Review of International Health Regulations 2015” said the Dean of FHUI in his opening speech.
The Covid-19 pandemic has been under international and national discussion for the past seven months. It is recorded that 30 million people in the world have been infected with Covid-19, of which 951 thousand people have died. In addition to the health impacts, economic impacts, social and political impacts from the existence of a domino effect, these effects arise from the results of the government’s efforts to overcome and prevent the transmission of Covid-19.
According to Prof. Dr. Anna, Large-Scale Social Restrictions (PSBB) can prevent the transmission of Covid-19 but harm hampering interactions and transactions. So that it has a direct effect on the decline in the world economy.
“Until here we are aware together that the issue of the Covid-19 pandemic is no longer a health issue which is homework for doctors, health workers, health experts, but has also become homework for the policies of legal experts, health experts, economists, and social anthropologists. Health and economy are fundamental rights for every human being in the world. For the sake of realizing and protecting these fundamentals, the law is used to protect values into law. ” said the Professor of FHUI, Prof. Dr. Anna Erliyana
Therefore the purpose of this webinar is to discuss how the government is responsible for preventing and overcoming the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Health Law Research Unit which is under the auspices of the Djokosoetono Research Center (DRC FHUI) is a research institution that was only founded in February 2020. The activities of the Health Law Research Unit are to conduct various kinds of research, consisting of community service programs.
