TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) Governor Zulkieflimansyah asked Mataram City’s Legislative Council (DPRD) Speaker Didi Sumardi to gift participants of the fifth DPRD National Meeting with ‘wild horse milk’ as it is locally believed to protect people from contracting the COVID-19 or coronavirus.
“I kindly ask the Mataram City DPRD Speaker to present the spirit of NTB across the nation. No DPRD legislator should go back home without bringing [the wild horse milk] as a souvenir,” said Zulkieflimansyah in opening the national meeting at the hotel Lombok Raya in Mataram today.
The governor explained that this specific type of milk is believed to be able to fend off the COVID-19 and brags about how local NTB residents casually respond to the global outbreak.
“I sometimes wonder why they are not panicked, some are just smiling. As I asked, they said that their immune system and stamina is strong enough due to daily consuming wild horse milk,” said the NTB governor.
The number of Indonesians infected by the COVID-19 or coronavirus as of March 10 has climbed to 27 cases spread among more than two clusters.
