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April 29, 2021, 07.33 AM

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Undercover police in North Sumatra raid the offices of health workers from the state-owned Kimia Farma Diagnostics company at the province's Kualanamu International Airport on Tuesday (27/04/2021). The medical personnel were arrested for reusing used antigen rapid test kits(ANTARA/HO)

Laksana Tri Handoko has been appointed as the National Research and Innovation Agency head during a ceremony held at the State Palace on Wednesday, April 28, 2021. Previously, Laksana served as the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) head.

Indonesia's President Joko Widodo has appointed Bahlil Lahadalia as the new minister of Investment and
Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM) head in a ceremony held at the State Palace on Wednesday, April 28, 2021. Bahlil previously served as BKPM head before the two institutions have previously also been merged.

Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy, Sandiaga Uno during an interview with the editor in chief of Kompas.com, Wisnu Nugroho at M Bloc Market, Thursday (15/4/2021).

Writer Tunggul Wirajuda

Editor Tunggul Wirajuda

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Indonesian Police Bust Medical Workers Reusing Old Rapid Test Kits

Police in Indonesia’s North Sumatra Province has busted a ring of health workers from a subsidiary of state-owned Kimia Farma pharmaceutical company, after they reused old rapid test kits on travelers at the Kualanamu International Airport.

North Sumatra Regional Police spokesman Police Grand Commissioner Hadi Wahyudi said the police arrested six medical workers in the undercover sting.

“We carried out the operation after [the Regional Police’s] Special Crimes Directorate received a tip from [travelers] who reported that the test kits they were using has already been used. The Directorate then sent Police Commissioner Attendant [AKP] Jericho Levian to investigate. ”

AKP Jericho and his men posed as airline passengers at the airport and allowed the medical workers from Kimia Farma to carry out the antigen rapid tests.

“The investigators’ suspicions increased after the tests indicated them to be positive for Covid-19. Sceptical of the results, the policemen examined the antigen rapid test labs, then interrogated the Kimia Farma Diagnostic personnel,” he asserted.

“The health workers admitted to the police that they used old rapid test samples on the passengers. Their modus operandi included washing the used rapid test kits and replacing them. Kimia Farma Diagnostics’s parent company, Kimia Farma, has come clean about their employees’ actions.

The medical workers’ actions have discredited [Kimia Farma] and violated our standard operating procedures [SOP],” said Kimia Farma President-Director Adil Fadhilah Bulgini in a written statement to Kompas.com on Wednesday.