Survey Proves That The Main Reason People Have Not Been Vaccinated Is Because They Are Afraid Of The Side Effects

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JAKARTA - The Indicators survey institute presented the results of a poll on the public's response to the government's COVID-19 vaccination program. As a result, many respondents said they had not been vaccinated.

Executive Director of Indicators Burhanuddin Muhtadi explained, as many as 67.5 percent of respondents claimed they had not received the corona vaccine. Then, only 21.4 percent of respondents admitted that they had been vaccinated with one dose and 11.1 percent of respondents admitted that they had only been vaccinated with two doses.

Respondents who had not been vaccinated were then asked about their desire to be vaccinated. Apparently, more respondents are not yet willing to be injected with the COVID-19 vaccine.

"Of those who have not been vaccinated, the majority 56.9 percent admitted that they were less or very unwilling to vaccinate. Meanwhile, 42.5 admitted that they were very willing or quite willing", said Burhanuddin in a virtual survey presentation, Wednesday, August 25.

Furthermore, respondents who were unwilling to return were asked about the reasons for not wanting to be vaccinated. The biggest reason, as many as 51.9 percent admitted because they were afraid of the side effects that would be caused.

"People who are not willing, most of them are afraid of side effects. So, they feel there are unsafe side effects. They feel they don't need to be vaccinated", said Burhanuddin.

Then, as many as 16.8 percent of residents do not want to be vaccinated because they are not effective, 12.6 percent feel their bodies are healthy and do not need to be vaccinated, 3.9 percent think vaccines are not halal, and other reasons.

For information, this survey was conducted in the range of July 30 to August 4, 2021. The sample was chosen completely at random using the multistage random sampling method.

Respondents who took part in the survey were 1.220 Indonesian citizens who had the right to vote and were over 17 years old or married. The survey's margin of error is about 2.9 percent at the 95 percent confidence level.