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Various countries are coming up with unconventional ways to stop people from violating their quarantine rules with India recently forcing violators to write “I am sorry” 500 times and Pampanga violators planting vegetables. But a politician decided to take things to the next level!
The quarantine violators in Indonesia’s Java Island are being locked in a haunted house as punishment!
The locals on the island believe that some of the abandoned houses were haunted and the head of Sragen regency named Kusdinar Untung Yuni Sukowati, decided to use the fear of the supernatural to stop people from violating the quarantine rules.
Violators are locked in these “haunted” abandoned houses that locals believe are haunted to spend 14 days in self-isolation.
“If they disobey self-isolation orders, several villages have asked for my permission to quarantine them in an abandoned elementary school or abandoned houses,” the politician said. “I gave my permission. If need be, they should be locked inside — in a haunted house if necessary. But we’d still feed them and monitor them.”
This came after many people who are coming into the island refused to self-quarantine, and in the case they do have COVID-19, it would spread and infect other locals.
Three quarantine violators in Sepat Village were placed in a long-abandoned house believed to be haunted while two violators in Plupuh village were locked in an abandoned “haunted” house that’s located in the middle of a rice paddy field.
“Two Plupuh residents agreed to self-isolate but they violated the order. So they were locked inside an abandoned haunted house. Had they obeyed their order they wouldn’t have been locked in there,” the Sragen regent said.
We guess the fear of ghosts scares the locals more than death from the deadly pandemic virus, as authorities in Jakarta too, resorted to using that fear and had youths dressed up as ghosts known as “pocong” to make sure people stay home.
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