Financial Services Sector Customers Now Get Mass COVID-19 Vaccination Turn

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JAKARTA - The government through the Financial Services Authority (OJK) reports that the financial services sector is the next priority that will receive mass COVID-19 vaccinations in various parts of Indonesia.

Chairman of the OJK Board of Commissioners, Wimboh Santoso, said this effort was made to contain the spread of the pandemic and build trust in the industry.

"In collaboration with the Ministry of Health, we will help accelerate COVID-19 vaccination by involving the financial services sector throughout Indonesia. With this vaccination, we hope that the business of the financial services industry will become stronger and can further encourage the recovery of the national economy", he said in an official statement, Wednesday, June 16.

Wimboh added, apart from Jakarta, 90.000 mass vaccinations for the financial services sector will be prepared for areas outside the capital city.

"This also includes consumers or customers in the financial sector", he said.

The OJK Chairman's statement was delivered while accompanying President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) who witnessed the provision of COVID-19 vaccination for employees of the financial services industry at the Indoor Tennis area of Senayan, Jakarta today.

"Our target later in early July is to be able to reach the provision of one million vaccines per day from the previous 500.000 per day. With this acceleration, we hope to reduce the spread of COVID-19", said President Jokowi.

Furthermore, the Head of State revealed that vaccination for the financial sector was carried out to accelerate the creation of a condition of communal immunity in the community.

"I hope that the acceleration of vaccination in the financial services sector can be carried out in all regions so that it can reach herd immunity in August", he said.

In addition to the Chairman of the OJK, the President was also accompanied by Minister of Finance Sri Mulyani, Governor of Bank Indonesia Perry Warjiyo, and President Director of the Indonesia Stock Exchange Inarno Djayadi.

For information, vaccinations for the financial services sector are provided as much as 100.000 and for the initial stage will be given to 10.000 players in the financial services sector in Jakarta.

Then, as many as 1.000 financial services industry players in ten cities Regional Offices and OJK Offices in the regions, namely Bandung, Semarang, Surabaya, Denpasar, Palembang, Medan, Banjarmasin, Makassar, Yogyakarta and Jambi.