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View all search resultsNew National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) head Arif Satria faces internal friction and longstanding researcher dissatisfaction stemming from the politicization of the government’s research arm during former president Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s second term.
As top-ranking BRIN officials began their work on downsizing the Eijkman Institute, founded in 1888 and named after Dutch physician Christiaan Eijkman who is credited for discovering Beriberi, the research agency has been conducting research to develop the locally-sourced Merah Putih vaccine, one of the candidates for the government’s booster shot rollout. Work on the vaccine is expected to wrap up in late January.
Unlike neighboring Singapore, Indonesia has not detected the new SARS-CoV-2 variant first discovered in the United Kingdom, but that may be due to the country’s lack of genomic and molecular monitoring, a minister has said.
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