JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo acknowledged that the efforts to socialize government officials regarding the COVID-19 vaccination had not been maximal, so it had not hit the public.
Responding to this, an outbreak expert from Griffith University, Dicky Budiman, said that the government's strategy for the success of COVID-19 vaccination was not optimal. In fact, the communication strategy related to handling the pandemic is not good.
"Not only socialization ahead of vaccination. Any communication strategy regarding the handling of the pandemic has always been a lot of homework," said Dicky to VOI, Monday, February 22.
Dicky reviewed, from the start the government seemed not serious about facing the aftermath of the coronavirus. Starting from a year ago, the Javanese government had not had any cases of COVID-19 because Indonesia was in a tropical region, the claim of COVID-19 was not yet in Indonesia because its citizens liked to eat cat rice, until recently the government targeted free COVID-19 on Independence Day on August 17 to come.
"Such glorifications are certainly not appropriate in the preparation of a pandemic risk strategy. Because one of the principles in communicating the risk of this pandemic is uncertainty. So that the claim cannot be conveyed, it will be resolved quickly," he said.
According to Dicky, the government must reveal what happened according to the data generated regarding the impact of the pandemic, both a relief and a worry.
"The positive and negative sides of the data must be conveyed, so that public awareness will be awakened. Currently, cases seem low. In fact, because the number of testing is decreasing. We still have to be cautious," he explained.
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Previously, President Jokowi admitted that the government's efforts to socialize the COVID-19 vaccine to the public were still not optimal.
"Regarding the socialization of vaccines, it is true, we are only explaining that vaccines are safe and halal. This is lacking in socialization," Jokowi said on Saturday, February 20.
Jokowi said that the lack of socialization of the vaccine, said Jokowi, was based on reports that initially from 10 market traders who were asked about vaccination, only three people answered that they wanted to be vaccinated.
Until finally, the government held vaccinations at the locations where the traders were selling, namely Tanah Abang Market. Jokowi sees that when there are already vaccinated traders, only then are other traders willing to be vaccinated.
"Because one is brave, the second is brave, the third is brave, the other is following. The good one is there. Maybe this is because of the psychology. This may lack socialization. So those who reject at first, will be accepting after we provide the place," said Jokowi.
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