JAKARTA - The Working Committee (Panja) of Vaccine Supervision Commission IX of the Indonesian House of Representatives asked the government to issue a concrete policy on public demand for halal vaccines in the booster vaccination program.
"We ask that there must be policies and concrete actions regarding halal vaccines," said member of the Vaccine Committee of the House of Representatives Commission IX Kurniasih Mufidayati at the Panja Meeting at the Jakarta DPR building, reported by Antara, Tuesday, April 12.
He said that so far the government seems to be just making small talk and responding to people's wishes is only normative.
"The answer is just small talk, in circles, and only normative, we ask that it must be answered immediately so that it can answer the wishes of the community," said the member of the PKS faction.
The same thing was conveyed by a member of the Vaccine Committee from the PAN faction, Saleh Daulay, who was surprised by the government, especially the Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) RI because so far it has not answered the public's request to provide halal vaccines.
In fact, according to him, the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) has allowed a vaccine in the month of Ramadan.
"Even though in this month of Ramadan, MUI has installed its body. But until now the issue of halal vaccines has not been answered," he said.
Therefore, Saleh Daulay asked the government to immediately respond to the current stock of halal vaccines.
Seeing the government's response that was not serious about responding to public pressure, Panja member from the NasDem Faction Irma Suryani Chaniago threatened the government to raise the status of this panja to become a special committee.
"I said earlier, if the answer is still not clear, we will raise it to the special committee," said Irma.
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