'I'm Worried That The Target Of 280 Million Doses Will Not Be Achieved', Said Jokowi, Who Was Worried About Vaccination

President Jokowi on PSI's 7th Birthday (Photo: BPMI Setpres/Rusman)

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo received good news in early 2022. Jokowi said that the COVID-19 vaccination in Indonesia had exceeded the target of 280 million doses, reaching 281,299,690 doses.

"Our target by the end of the year (2021) is 280 million. On this day we should also be grateful, I'm already worried that our target of 280 million doses of vaccine can be injected into the entire community, can we achieve it or not? 281,299,690 doses," said President Joko Widodo at the Indonesia Stock Exchange building, Jakarta, Monday, January 3.

This good news was conveyed by Jokowi when he opened trading on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) in 2022. The event was also attended by Coordinating Minister for the Economy Airlangga Hartarto, Minister of Finance Sri Mulyani Indrawati, Minister of Investment/Head of BKPM Bahlil Lahadalia, Chairman of the Financial Services Authority Wimboh Santoso, Governor of Bank Indonesia Perry Warjiyo, and other relevant officials.

"Be careful the 280 million doses that are injected are also not easy stuff. Injecting 280 million times in one year is not an easy thing because of our geography, which requires vaccination by boat, motorbike, walking up the mountain is not something that easy," said President Jokowi.

According to data owned by President Jokowi, vaccination for children has also reached 3.8 million doses.

As of January 2, 2022, the first dose of vaccination for children has reached 79.6 percent and the second dose is 54 percent.

"And for provincial capitals, big cities with high community interaction are already above 70 percent and 27 provinces have reached the target of above 70 percent," said the President.

According to President Jokowi, this was achieved because of the hard work of the central government, regional governments, TNI/Polri, BIN, private companies both large, medium, small scale, community organizations, and others.

"Everything is moving, our capital is there, togetherness, mutual cooperation is our capital," added the President.

President Jokowi admits that 2021 will be a very difficult year.

"It wasn't an easy year, it wasn't easy, because in mid-July 2021, when our daily cases reached 56,000, that's when I really remember the horror, because in the hospital halls, in the hospital grounds, all of them were full of COVID-19 patients. 19," said the President.

However, President Jokowi said that on January 2, 2022, there were only 174 cases of COVID-19 in Indonesia.

"From 56 thousand (cases) down to 174 (cases) per day, this is what we must be grateful for and we must take care to prevent cases like the 2021 case in mid-July," the President added.

The President also invited to be grateful for the number of people who were confirmed positive for COVID-19 compared to the total population in Indonesia, which was only 1.6 percent. That number is far below other countries, namely the United States 16.8 percent, Brazil 10.5 percent, Russia 7.2 percent, India 2.5 percent.

"We are ranked at 147 out of 222 countries, we should be grateful for this," said the President.

Previously, the Ministry of Health stated that the vaccination target was 208,265,720 people or 80 percent of Indonesia's population. This number consists of health workers, the elderly population, public officials, vulnerable communities, the general public and the population aged 12-17 years.