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View all search resultsHealth Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin said in a statement that money contributed to the effort came from the state budget as well as funding by the private sector. The move was for the first for Indonesia to become a contributor to the initiative.
G20 countries have provisionally agreed to set up a multi-billion dollar fund that health officials have said will finance efforts like surveillance, research, and better access to vaccination for lower-to-middle income countries, among others.
The Idul Fitri tradition of mudik (exodus) will return this year with President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo announcing that the government would ease restrictions for the holiday festivities for the first time in the two years since the pandemic started.
The decision underscores challenges many developing countries face in their slow inoculation campaigns, as vaccines donated by wealthy countries arrive with a relatively short shelf life of just a few months or even weeks.
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