Jokowi Asks Other Regions To Emulate Bekasi In Vaccination, Use Soccer Fields

Indonesian President Joko Widodo (Photo: Setkab)

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has asked other cities and regencies to imitate the city of Bekasi, which uses a soccer field as a location for mass distribution of COVID-19 vaccines.

This was conveyed when he reviewed the implementation of vaccinations at the Patriot Candrabhaga Stadium, Bekasi City, West Java. The mass vaccination targets the general public, the elderly, public servants, and the disabled.

"This morning I visited the vaccination program in Bekasi City with me the Minister of Health, the Governor of West Java, and the Mayor of Bekasi," said President Jokowi as quoted from the Presidential Secretariat's YouTube, Monday, June 14.

The use of facilities in the form of a soccer field carried out by the City of Bekasi, said Jokowi, could make mass vaccinations well implemented.

Moreover, based on the report of the Mayor of Bekasi, Rahmat Effendi, in a day there are 10 thousand doses of vaccine that can be injected at this location.

"We hope that with a model like the one in Bekasi, it can be applied in other cities and regencies so that vaccinations take place in large numbers," said the former governor of DKI Jakarta.

So, if this method of mass vaccination is carried out by other regions, herd immunity or communal immunity can immediately be created in the community.

"We hope that soon we can achieve communal immunity, herd immunity. And we hope that we can inhibit the spread of COVID-19," said Jokowi.

During this visit, Jokowi was accompanied by Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin, West Java Governor Ridwan Kamil and Bekasi Mayor Rahmat Effendi.

As previously reported, data from the Ministry of Health as of Sunday, June 13 noted that the number of people who had been injected with the second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine increased to 11,568,443 people. While people who have been vaccinated the first dose reached 20,158,937 people.