Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – Management of PT Unilever Indonesia Tbk (UNVR) said that the supply of the product remained safe even though one of the factories was closed because there were employees who were exposed to the corona virus (Covid-19). The company closed one of the factories in the Cikarang region, Bekasi Regency after several employees in the engineering division of the TBB building tested positive for COVID-19, which is a part of the Unilever Indonesia factory complex in Cikarang.
Unilever Indonesia Corporate Affairs Director and Corporate Secretary Sancoyo Aninterestso said, worldwide Unilever has factories in 180 countries. Every factory, said Sancoyo, has strict protocols in handling COVID-19 cases.
The Unilever Cikarang factory complex has several buildings with strict work zone and production area separation protocols. Employees are only allowed to work in their respective zones, and cannot cross work zones and production areas for any reason.
“We understand that our products are an important part of consumers’ daily lives, therefore we need to say that this will not affect the supply to consumers. The stock in our warehouse and distributor and customer warehouses is still sufficient,” Sancoyo said.
Factory closure is a preventive measure to prevent the spread of covid-19. “We will suspend operations as soon as we get the news, to focus on implementing various preventive measures in an effort to safeguard the health and safety of employees,” said Director of Corporate Affairs and Corporate Secretary of PT Unilever Indonesia Tbk Sancoyo An Interested in an official statement received by CNBC Indonesia, Thursday (2 / 7).
As a result of this incident, Unilever Indonesia claims to have contacted and sent an official report to the Bekasi District Health Office, conducted contact tracing, and required PCR tests for all employees of the TBB building to be 265 people.
Alamsyah Bekasi Spokesperson Spokesperson Task Force Acceleration Spokesperson said the Jababeka Industrial Estate Task Force Team and had visited the site and coordinated directly with local management. He revealed only one area that needed to be closed for a while.
“We urge that people do not panic. Measures taken to ensure the health and safety of the community in the surrounding environment have been carried out very strictly and in accordance with health protocols. There is no need to worry about product contamination, because so far there has been no evidence of disease transmission through consumer goods and / or everyday products, both during this outbreak or similar outbreaks before (for example SARS), for that the possibility of this happening is very small to happen, “said Alamsyah.
