IDNEWSNOW.COM, Jakarta – Indonesian Home Affairs Minister Tito Karnavian will impose sanctions against provinces with Covid-19 vaccination rates listed below the 70- percent target by the end of 2021.
” Provinces that fail to reach the target will be alerted verbally and given a disincentive as sanctions; they will not get additional reward funds,” Tito said in a written statement on Friday, December 17, 2021.
On the other hand, provinces that was successful in reaching the vaccination rate target will be proposed to the Ministry of Financing for extra Regional Incentive Funds and General Allocation Funds.
Among the provinces with below average vaccination rates– inoculating less than 70 percent of the population with the first dosage– is West Sumatra. Minister Tito visited the province on Friday, December 18, 2021, to learn firsthand what the challenges are.
A variety of regency heads talked to the minister about the concern. Deputy Regent of Agam, Irwan Fikri, said that in addition to the regency’s high population and huge location, the lack of vaccinators is decreasing the vaccine rollout.
On The Other Hand, Padang Pariaman Regent Suhatri Bur stated that numerous citizens are still in denial about the presence of Covid-19 Suhatri said that every day the local government and the authorities and army continue pushing vaccination.
” The number is still at 49.2 percent. There is no scarcity of dosages. We have likewise released circulars to speed up vaccinations. When we come to them, the locals were at sea or planting. That is among our obstacles,” Suhatri said.
Tito responded by stating there are strategies that city governments can do. One of them is by sending out health workers from the main to locations that require vaccinators.
Relating to people who hesitate to be inoculated, Tito said that local heads should take a sociological approach to encourage them to be secured against Covid-19
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