JAKARTA - Deputy Governor of West Papua, Muhamad Lakotani, appealed to indigenous Papuans and residents from outside the province not to refuse the COVID-19 vaccination because they were incited by various false news or hoaxes about the dangers of vaccines.
"There are still groups of people who think that the COVID-19 vaccine was created to destroy certain ethnicities. This is not true," said the Deputy Governor when inspecting the mass vaccination site in Borasi Field, Manokwari Regency, as reported by Antara, Monday, July 19.
He acknowledged that there are still groups of people in this province who refuse the COVID-19 vaccine because of different views and understandings.
The Deputy Governor reiterated that the purpose of the COVID-19 vaccination program is to form community individual immunity and group immunity according to the work profession in the community from exposure to the corona virus.
"I myself have been vaccinated twice, and my condition is healthy until now," he said.
He assured the public that the government could not have bad intentions to harm its own people, including in this COVID-19 vaccination program.
"The government exists because of the people, the government's job is to serve its people through various programs for the purpose of public welfare and health, including from the threat of the COVID-19 pandemic," said Muhamad Lakotani.
Meanwhile, the West Papua Provincial Government together with the TNI-Polri in this area continue to work together to carry out mass COVID-19 vaccination attacks to the community.
West Papua Police Chief Inspector General Tornagogo Sihombing together with the Commander of the XVIII Military Command/Kasuari Major General TNI I Nyoman Cantiasa are committed to assisting the government in the mass COVID-19 vaccination campaign, including implementing restrictions during the Emergency PPKM period.
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