Doctor Terawan Affirms Nusantara Vaccine Not Made In America In Today's Memory, July 8, 2022

The COVID-19 vaccination process was held by the Indonesian government. (ANTARA)

JAKARTA Memories of today, three years ago, July 8, 2022, the former Minister of Health (Menkes), Terawan Agus Putranto emphasized that the Nusantara COVID-19 vaccine is the work of the nation's children. He considered this affirmation to silence the doubts of many people related to the Nusantara vaccine made in the United States (US).

Previously, the development of the Nusantara vaccine was full of controversy. The presence of the Nusantara vaccine is considered not based on a consistent process of development and research results. This condition affects public trust.

No one doubts that the COVID-19 pandemic is disrupting the existence of the whole world. The virus from Wuhan is starting to stir one by one the country. The death toll is increasing. The country's economy is plunging freely. This narrative makes the world health agency, WHO takes quick steps.

They are trying to issue guidelines for the transmission of the coronavirus to stop. However, WHO believes that the preventive measures they echo are only temporary. This means that the pandemic could last a long time.

WHO also realized that the corona virus could be conquered. The conquest clearly requires a vaccine that makes the body immune from the COVID-19 attack. All the people of the world support the presence of vaccines. The gap made the world's major pharmaceutical company take a role.

It is not uncommon for vaccine manufacturing to cooperate with the state. Indonesia also does not want to lose. The vaccine manufacturing project is trying to be carried out. Former Minister of Health, Terawan Agus Putranto is one of the initiators. He initiated the Nusantara vaccine.

However, the presence of the Nusantara vaccine carries pros and cons. Those who support consider the Nusantara vaccine to be worth trying. Those who counter think that the Nusantara vaccine does not go through a consistent process of developing and research results.

"If it's called research, there's always a ethical clearance. What about this ethically? Including visibility in terms of implementation and the public. That's what I think from there it doesn't pass. There can't be one health product, either medical devices, testing tools, drugs, or vaccines, which are intervened by economy and politics. Vaccines must be scientifically generated, scientific procedures, with scientific principles," said epidemiologist Dicky Budiman as quoted on the tempo.co page, March 15, 2021.

There are also those who think that the Nusantara vaccine is not completely pursued by domestic experts. The development was carried out by Americans (US).

Criticism for the sake of criticism rains the process of developing the Nusantara vaccine. However, its development and production continue. Terawan also tried to answer all the doubts directed at the development of the Nusantara vaccine.

He began to answer regarding doubts about the US-made Nusantara vaccine on July 8, 2022. Terawan considered that the Nusantara vaccine had development cooperation with the US. However, that does not mean making the Nusantara vaccine made in the US.

He also said that in medical cooperation between countries is normal. What is certain is that further development is carried out by the nation's children. This means that the Nusantara vaccine is considered to be made by the nation's children.

"So we can't as if the work of the nation's children really starts from the ingredients that are all generated on their own, not efficient. Efficiency doesn't exist. And that's management. Management must be efficient. Which one can be produced alone so that it can be efficient, which one should be produced elsewhere in order to be more efficient,"

"Similarly, where does the Nusantara vaccine come from? From Indonesia. Yes, this is a product of the nation's children. So where are we able to access everything well, wherever it comes from, and we can produce it into a work, it's called our work. The work of the nation," said Terawans as quoted by the COMPASS.com page, July 8, 2022.