Indonesia is in the top five countries with high vaccination coverage

Two health workers wear superhero masks when injecting the COVID-19 vaccine to children aged 6-11 years at RSIA Tambak, Jakarta, Wednesday (5/1/2022). The use of super hero masks aims to attract children's interest in participating in the COVID-19 vaccination program. BETWEEN PHOTOS/Rivan Awal Lingga/ws/pri.

Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin said that Indonesia was included in the top five countries with high COVID-19 vaccination coverage, along with China, India, the United States and Brazil.

"Based on Our World in Data data as of January 4, 2022, Indonesia has injected 281,574,183 doses of COVID-19 vaccine. This achievement has succeeded in bringing Indonesia to become one of the five countries with the most vaccination coverage in the world," said Budi Gunadi Sadikin as quoted in a press release from the ministry in Jakarta, Friday.

In Indonesia, according to government data, as of Thursday (6/1) 167,999,777 people who have received a single dose of COVID-19 vaccine, 115,554,584 people who have received two doses of vaccine, and 115,554,584 people who have received a vaccine. injection of three doses of vaccine as many as 1,297,372 people.

The Minister of Health said that the government was intensifying vaccination services to complete the implementation of COVID-19 vaccinations for 208.2 million people in March or April 2022.

He ensured that the stock of COVID-19 vaccines in the country was still safe even though the number of vaccination targets increased after the government decided to vaccinate children. -children aged six to 11 years and giving the third dose of vaccine injection to residents.

"Now we have a stock of around 140 million doses of vaccine. We are targeting our vaccination speed of 50 million targets within one month. We have also prepared a booster vaccination  to anticipate Omicron. So it is certain that the stock is still there," he said.

The Minister of Health reminded that COVID-19 is still a threat to the community and emphasized the importance of implementing health protocols and the immediate completion of vaccination implementation in order to realize communal immunity to overcome the transmission of the disease.

The government builds 1,102 earthquake survivor shelter units in Tondo Dua Palu

The government through the Ministry of Public Works will build 1,102 permanent shelters (huntap) in Tondo Dua, Tondo Village, Palu City, which are intended for earthquake, tsunami and liquefaction survivors.

"In Tondo, there are 1,102 shelter units that will be built on an area of ​​65.3 hectares," said Head of the Central Sulawesi Regional Settlement Infrastructure Center (BPPW), Sahabuddin, in Palu, Friday.

Central Sulawesi BPPW through Sahabuddin has directly reported the plan to build the temporary shelter to Vice President Ma'ruf Amin during a visit to the location of the shelter construction plan, Thursday afternoon, January 6, 2021.

"Strategic things need to be accelerated to complete the construction," said Vice President Ma'ruf Amin, during his visit to the relocation site for the temporary shelter construction in Tondo Dua, Tondo Village, Palu City.

To Vice President Ma'ruf Amin, Sahabuddin said the shelters would also be equipped with supporting facilities and infrastructure such as roads , street lighting, drainage, waste management installations, and green open space (RTH).

To Vice President Ma'ruf Amin, Sahabuddin stated that his party is ready to build because the budget for the construction is ready, and the design details have also been completed.

"The development budget for the temporary shelters in Tondo Dua and the shelters in Talise Village is IDR 276 billion for the two locations," said Sahabuddin.

However, until now the construction has not been carried out because, there are 47 residents who claim to own land in the Tondo II location.

"We are ready to auction this development, it's just that there are residents' claims to the land. If this problem is finished, then we will immediately auction it off," he said.

Meanwhile, for the huntap in Talise Village, said Sahabuddin, 685 units will be built on an area of ​​46.83 hectares.

"The Huntap in Talise has not yet been developed, because there are residents who claim to be the land owners, so this must be resolved first by the Palu City Government," he said.*

Due to landslides, provincial roads in Sikka Regency, NTT are in danger of breaking up

This provincial road in Hepang, Lela almost broke due to a landslide after heavy rains hit the local area

The Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) of East Nusa Tenggara Province reported that provincial roads in Hepang Village, Lela District, Sikka Regency are threatened with breaking due to landslides.

"This provincial road in Hepang, Lela almost broke due to a landslide after heavy rains flushed the local area," said Head of the NTT BPBD Ambrosius Kodo when confirmed in Kupang, Friday.

He conveyed that this was related to the impact of extreme weather in the form of heavy rains that hit Sikka Regency which caused damage to road infrastructure in the area.

He explained that the damage to the road infrastructure did not affect local residents because at the time of the incident, no one was passing through the landslide point.

Currently, he said, the condition of the road access is still passable by vehicles but must be more careful.

"Vehicles can still pass on the side of the road that is not affected by landslides but must be careful because at the bottom of the asphalt there are cavities due to landslides," he said.

Ambrosius said the damaged roads are part of the main access for residents in the Hepang, Lela and surrounding areas.

For this reason, efforts to repair the road will then be handled by the NTT Public Works and Public Housing (PUPR) Office.

"For now, we urge road users, both motorbikes and cars or trucks, to be more careful so that there are no accidents as a result of this landslide," he said.