Ahead Of Eid Al-Adha, Coordinating Minister For Human Development And Culture Asks For Accelerated Distribution Of Livestock Vaccines

Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture Muhadjir Effendy/Photo: Antara

JAKARTA - Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture (Menko PMK) Muhadjir Effendy asked for accelerated distribution of vaccines for livestock as an effort to control the spread of foot and mouth disease. herd immunity, at least 70 percent of cattle from the total population must have been vaccinated," said the Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture in a written statement quoted in Jakarta, Saturday, June 25. Muhadjir Effendy also requested that the acceleration of vaccine distribution prioritize priority areas, namely areas affected by the outbreak. "It's better if the acceleration of vaccine procurement must be carried out immediately, as in handling COVID-19 and prioritizing areas that have been exposed to FMD," he said. provinces in Indonesia that are infected with FMD. "We have to hunt for a vaccine, because we can't get it wait too long to prevent it from spreading," he said. The government is currently preparing to procure three million doses of emergency PMK vaccine. Procurement of the first stage of emergency vaccines as many as 800 thousand doses and the next stage as many as 2.2 million doses. Some of the first stage vaccines arrived on Sunday 12 June 2022 with a total of 10,000 doses and the first vaccination was carried out on 14 June 2022 in two smallholder cattle farms located in Sidoarjo Regency, East Java Province.

The next shipment of vaccines from the first phase with a total of 800,000 doses arrived back in Indonesia on Thursday, June 16, 2022, via Soekarno Hatta Airport. Meanwhile, Muhadjir also encouraged the data collection of farmers who had lost due to the spread of PMK in order to receive compensation in the form of social assistance or others. "This aims to prevent an increase in extreme poverty rates due to foot and mouth disease. Apart from the death of their livestock, farmers are also harmed because of the high costs to deal with PMK. Especially small farmers who lose their livestock," he said. Previously, the government had approved the procurement of 29 million doses of oral and nail disease vaccine for livestock this year using funds from the COVID-19 Handling Committee and National Economic Recovery (KPCPEN). dose and all of it will be financed with funds from from KPCPEN," said Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto after attending an internal meeting with President Jokowi related to the handling of FMD in livestock at the Bogor Presidential Palace, West Java, Thursday (23/6).