Mass Vaccination, 10 Thousand Media Workers Targeted To Inject COVID-19 Vaccine

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JAKARTA - Media workers who registered through the Central Indonesian Journalists Association (PWI) underwent mass vaccination against COVID-19 wave IV. The vaccination was held by Bentara Budaya, Kompas Gramedia complex, Jakarta.

The organizers implement strict health protocols. These include queuing lanes, providing hand washing facilities, hand sanitizers, checking body temperature and limiting physical distance before entering the venue to setting room capacity. However, everything went smoothly.

Kompas Gramedia Corporate Communication Director Glory Oyong said that the implementation of the COVID-19 vaccination, which began on June 28, coincided with the 56th anniversary of Kompas Daily, was quite unique.

"We deliberately hung the painting from the Bantara Budaya Jakarta collection above the vaccination site. This is unique," said Glory.

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There were 474 participants who registered through PWI throughout Jabodetabek. They are gradually getting vaccinated starting this morning. Followed by Monday, July 5 and Monday, July 12.

The vaccination, which started to coincide with the anniversary of Kompas Daily, was attended by the Governor of DKI Jakarta, Anies Baswedan. The target is 10,000 media workers for the next 20 days. Saturday and Sunday there are no vaccinations.

"Vaccinations that are now available in a number of places, including at Bentara Budaya, help the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government to prevent the spread of COVID-19," said Governor Anies.

Meanwhile, on Thursday, July 1, coinciding with the 75th anniversary of Bhayangkara, the vaccinators on duty were health workers from the Indonesian National Police Medical and Health Center (Pusdokkes Polri).

The National Police Chief General Listyo Sigit Prabowo came to visit accompanied by the Head of the Public Relations Division of the National Police Inspector General Raden Prabowo Argo Yuwono, the Head of the Health Ministry of the Police Brigadier General Rusdianto and the Deputy Chief of the Metro Jaya Police Brigadier General Hendro Pandowo.

Kompas Daily Deputy General Leader Budiman Tanuredjo hopes that collaboration between elements of the TNI, Polri, Ministry of Health, the press and the general public can jointly achieve the vaccination target as desired by President Joko Widodo to achieve herd immunity so that Indonesia becomes a winning nation against COVID-19.

The first batch of mass vaccinations for journalists took place at the Bung Karno Basketball (GBK) building as a form of President Joko Widodo's commitment at the peak of the commemoration of National Press Day (HPN) February 9th.

The second wave took place at the DKI Jakarta City Hall, in March. The third wave at the Smesko building is parallel to the fourth wave at Bentara Budaya. The vaccines are all given in two doses with an interval of several weeks.

The vaccination implementation, Friday, July 2, was attended by Deputy Chairman of the Press Council, Hendry Ch Bangun. Participate in monitoring the Head of PWI Cares Aid Distribution Division Karim Paputungan and PWI Care Secretary Elly Pujianti and his team.

"Thank God everything went smoothly," said PWI Peduli Chair M Nasir.