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Administrative problems persist in vaccine accessibility, civil groups find
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A participant gets vaccinated during a mass vaccination program held in Jakarta. (Kompas.com/Kristanto Purnomo)
T
he vaccination campaign is still being hampered by administrative problems, civil groups have said, having received reports of people being unable to get their jabs because of misuse of identification numbers (NIK).
The problem is one of the persistent issues that have marred Indonesia’s inoculation drive and further highlights the country’s poor management of basic citizenship data.
Yemiko Happy, a volunteer at independent data initiative LaporCovid-19, said the group had received reports that some people had found that their NIK had been used by other people when they were trying to register to get vaccinated.
“Since August, our report channels have received several kinds of reports related to the NIK, such as people whose NIK were used by others to get inoculated, a single NIK being used by multiple people [to receive the jabs], or other examples of misuse,” said Yemiko in a recent discussion.
Ten people reported to LaporCovid-19 that their NIK had been used by someone else to receive the vaccines, two people reported that they had the identical NIK as someone else. Other issues include an NIK that was not detected when a person tried to register for inoculation and a vaccine certificate that was delivered to a person despite the person not yet being vaccinated.
“Ordinary people face these kinds of problems, let alone vulnerable people,” Yemiko said.
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