Reviewing The Mutual Cooperation Vaccination, Jokowi Wants The Industries To Be More Productive

Prospective participants of vaccine business unit APP Sinar Mas, PT Indah Kiat Pulp &Paper Tbk - Tangerang Mills during rehearsal of the Gotong Royong/ Antara Vaccination event

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) expects industry and business players to be more productive to produce economic activities. This is after the government and private sector worked together to implement the mutual cooperation (gotong royong) vaccination program.

"We hope that everything will be protected from the spread of COVID-19 and we expect that these production areas and industrial areas, factories, and production companies will be able to work more productively, and there will be no more spread of COVID-19", said President Jokowi while reviewing the vaccination of the inaugural in Jababeka industrial area, Bekasi, West Java, reported by Antara, Tuesday, May 18.

The location of the mutual cooperation vaccination reviewed by the President is on the industrial land of a multinational consumer goods company. Collectively, mutual cooperation vaccination was also conducted in 18 other locations.

President Jokowi thanked all companies, employees, and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) involved in the implementation of mutual cooperation vaccination.

"We hope this will build herd immunity, communal immunity, and the spread of COVID-19 we can be hampered and we can eliminate", he said.

The implementation of the mutual cooperation vaccination is stipulated in Regulation of the Minister of Health No. 10/2021 concerning the Mutual Cooperation (Gotong Royong) Vaccination. In Regulation of the Minister of Health (permenkes), regulated costs of mutual cooperation vaccination borne by legal entities/business entities that carry out vaccinations to employees, families, and other related individuals in the family.

Referring to the information reported on the official website of www.covid19.go.id, recipients of the COVID-19 vaccine in the mutual cooperation vaccination service are free of charge.

This mutual cooperation vaccination program is conducted to accelerate the provision of vaccines to Indonesians in order to create community immunity from COVID-19. The government targets a total of 181.5 million Indonesians to be given the COVID-19 vaccine to form herd immunity.