Ombudsman Says Many Outsiders Get Vaccinated In Jakarta Make Buffer Areas Troubled

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JAKARTA - The Chief Representative of the Ombudsman for Greater Jakarta, Teguh Nugroho, highlighted the large number of residents outside Jakarta who took vaccinations in the capital. As of August 16, there were 9.069.350 people vaccinated with the first dose in Jakarta. Then, there were 4.310.395 people who have vaccinated the second dose.

This achievement has already exceeded the initial target of the DKI Provincial Government's vaccine recipient target or has reached 101 percent in the first dose. Unfortunately, 40 percent of the people who were vaccinated by the DKI Provincial Government did not have a Jakarta ID card.

"So, only 60 percent of the vaccination target for Jakarta residents has been reached for the first dose and about 25 percent have received the second dose", said Teguh in his statement, Tuesday, August 17.

Teguh views that the abundance of vaccine stocks with many vaccination locations in Jakarta makes it difficult for the government of the buffer zone, namely Bodetabek (Bogor, Depok, Tangerang, Bekasi). This is because the local government must re-register its citizens who take vaccinations in Jakarta.

"Availability of abundant vaccines in Jakarta and easy registration for non-DKI Jakarta residents to get vaccines in the capital city is a double task because data must be re-sorted including data from residents of buffer areas (bodetabek) from the total vaccine recipients in Jakarta", said firm.

"Until when we made a request for information to Kadinkes throughout Jabodebek on July 28, 2021, it is known that all buffer areas have not received data on their citizens who received vaccines in Jakarta", he continued.

Teguh admitted that online vaccination registration through the JAKI application by the DKI Provincial Government has proven effective in pursuing daily vaccination rates and achieving Jakarta's vaccine targets.

However, according to him, this method is not effective enough to increase the vaccination rate for the citizens of Jakarta itself and presents ambiguity in data problems and the achievement of vaccination rates for the agglomeration areas.

"This method presents a pattern of discrimination against local government areas and residents in the agglomeration area, as well as bringing mass crowds from the agglomeration area to Jakarta. Moreover, the plan will continue until the number of vaccinations in Jakarta reaches 11 million", he said.

For this reason, Teguh encourages the DKI Provincial Government to work together with the Bodetabek buffer area government to clean up data on COVID-19 vaccinations in Jakarta.

So that buffer areas such as Bogor City, Bogor Regency, Bekasi City, Bekasi Regency, Depok City, South Tangerang, and Tangerang can find out in more detail their citizens who have received the vaccine in Jakarta.

"Cleaning this data will be 'detrimental' to Jakarta in terms of achievement numbers and increase the number of people vaccinated in the buffer zone, but once again, the number of vaccines is not part of the regional contestation to compete to increase the number of vaccination rates, but the most important thing is the achievement of herd immunity in the region. all agglomeration areas", he concluded.