The Ministry of Industry in coordination with the Ministry of Health ensures the availability of a third vaccine or booster of 18 million doses. Plt. Director General of Chemical, Pharmaceutical and Textile Industries (IKFT) Ignatius Warsito said that after the implementation was inaugurated by President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) this morning, the Ministry of Industry targets to inject 1 million doses within the next week. Meanwhile, the availability of 18 million doses of booster vaccine can meet the total number of industrial workers, which until the end of last year recorded 18.64 million people. "We have coordinated with the Ministry of Health, currently there are 18 million [dose] vaccines.

As targeted by the Minister (Minister of Industry Agus Gumiwang), within the next week we can vaccinate one million workers and their families," said Warsito in the socialization of Minister of Industry Circular No. .2/2022 concerning the third dose of vaccination for industrial workers, Thursday (24/2/2022).

Acting Secretary of the Directorate General of IKFT Elis Masitoh explained that to date there are 8,726 holders of Operational and Industrial Activity Mobility Permits (IOMKI) in the IKFT sector with a workforce of 3.65 million people.

Of these, the achievement of the second dose of vaccination was 1.81 million people, and the third or booster vaccination only reached 180,966 people.

Meanwhile, for the industrial sector under the Directorate General of IKFT, the target for booster vaccination is set at 250 thousand people until March 2022. The details are 100 thousand people in the textile and footwear industry, 50 thousand people in the downstream chemical industry, 50 thousand people in the upstream chemical industry. , and the remaining 50 thousand people are in the cement, ceramics, and non-metallic minerals sector.

"Why March 2022? The consideration is that next month we will enter the beginning of the fasting month, so it is feared that many staff who are fasting will not want to be vaccinated. Then after that there will be Eid holidays," said Elis.

Meanwhile, based on the Minister of Industry Circular No. 2/2022, industrial companies and industrial estates are targeted to vaccinate 50 percent of their employees by June 2022. By December 2022, all industrial companies are required to have 100 percent of their employees vaccinated.