Government Integrates Population Data To Facilitate Access To COVID-19 Vaccines In The Community

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JAKARTA - The government is integrating population data services managed by a number of ministries and institutions to facilitate administrative services for COVID-19 vaccination participants.

"What is certain is that the vaccination target data for 208.3 million people is not entirely by name by address. But the point is that we are trying to continue to communicate data collection that is more accurate to the target," said Secretary-General of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Indonesia Oscar Primadi while attending a virtual press conference at the press conference. monitored from the Zoom application from Jakarta, reported by Antara, Friday, August 6.

Oscar said in the collaboration it was agreed that the Directorate General of Population and Civil Registration (Dirjen Dukcapil) would provide data access to the Health Social Security Administration (BPJS) so that the P-Care vaccination application at the Ministry of Health could access population data at the Director-General of Dukcapil.

Access from P-Care Vaccination to Dukcapil data is provided for the accuracy of data on people who come directly to the vaccination site and have not registered through the Peduli Protect application as a single platform for vaccination registration.

"Previously, we needed to go through several stages including filtering through 'smart checking' at the Ministry of Health, then to P-Care and so on. With this kind of collaboration, we will get an easier access from Dukcapil, such as meeting total targets to communicating data. faster," he said.

At the same event, Director General of Dukcapil Zudan Arif Fakhrullah said that this data integration could make the implementation of the vaccination program run smoothly so as to minimize inaccurate data input that caused obstacles in the implementation of vaccinations.

The inter-ministerial data collaboration also allows vaccination administration services based on the Population Identification Number (NIK) to be carried out directly at the vaccination site.

"In this collaboration process, it will be collected in one place where data can be filled in. Because in the data collection there is a procedure for filling out the F101 form. This can be done directly at the vaccination site," he said.

Zudan said that giving NIK as a condition for vaccination participants could also be facilitated the day before the vaccination was held by the regional health office.

"For example, the health office wants to hold a vaccination in an orphanage or Islamic boarding school, then the day before the F101 form is sent," he said.

The form contains one of the dates of birth, month of birth, and year of birth of the vaccinated participants. "That's part of the mechanism for making NIK. The first six digits are the provincial code, district code and sub-district code. The date of birth is clear, only four-digit serial numbers are left," he said.

Zudan ensured that the process of making NIK for vaccination participants could take place quickly because it was application-based. "The important thing is that the public in filling out the form must be patient and fill it out with full honesty," he said.

This data integration collaboration was marked by the signing of the Cooperation Agreement for the Use of Population Identification Numbers, Population Data and Electronic Identity Cards in the COVID-19 Vaccination Service between Dukcapil and BPJS Health, Friday.

The signing of the collaboration was carried out online by the Director-General of Dukcapil Zudan Arif Fakhrullah and the President Director of BPJS Kesehatan, Ali Ghufron Mukti.