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Religious communities join campaign to raise awareness about COVID-19 vaccine
State-Owned Enterprises Minister Erick Thohir will cooperate with the Interfaith Communication Forum (FKUB) to increase the public’s awareness regarding the importance of the highly anticipated COVID-19 vaccine.
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Health workers inject a COVID-19 "vaccine" into a civil servant during a vaccination simulation at Udayana Military Command in Denpasar, Bali, on Dec. 10, 2020. (Antara/Nyoman Hendra Wibowo)
The Interfaith Communication Forum (FKUB) is joining a campaign spearheaded by the executive director of the government’s COVID-19 Response and Economic Recovery Committee Erick Thohir to raise the public's awareness regarding the importance of the highly anticipated COVID-19 vaccine.
In a short video posted on his Instagram account, @erickthohir, six FKUB members representing various religions in Indonesia express their support for the government’s vaccine program.
“We are supporting the government’s effort to break the COVID-19 transmission spread. Vaccination is the correct solution for all of us,” chairman of the Bali chapter of the Indonesian Hindu Religious Council (PHDI), I Gusti Ngurah Sudiana, said in the video clip.
The video also featured Istiqlal Mosque grand imam Nasaruddin Umar who said that the vaccine and strict implementation of health protocols were the solutions the country needed to curb the pandemic.
“God willing, we can protect ourselves and our nation through vaccination and strict health protocol implementation,” he said.
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