Terawan said the vaccination program would target 67 percent of the nation’s 167 million people aged between 18 and 56 years, as recommended by the Indonesian Technical Advisory Group on Immunization.

“There will be two schemes: the [public] and private programs. The [public] scheme will be carried out by the Health Ministry and the private scheme will be rolled out by the State-Owned Enterprises [SOEs] Ministry in partnership with the Health Ministry,” he said during a hearing with House of Representatives Commission IX overseeing health care and manpower on Thursday.

The state-funded program seeks to cover 32 million people: 1.2 million medical workers, 4.4 million public service workers, including military and police personnel, and 26.4 million people from vulnerable groups. It will require 73.9 million doses, accounting for 15 percent wastage.

The private program, meanwhile, seeks to cover 75 million people, including Health Care and Social Security Agency (BPJS Kesehatan) participants and holders of other insurance policies. This will require 172.6 million doses, accounting for wastage. The vaccines are to be distributed through private healthcare facilities.

The head of the economic recovery task force, Budi Gunadi Sadikin, who is also the deputy SOEs minister, said that 10,900 state-owned and private hospitals and clinics would be participating in the private vaccination program in a way that would “not disrupt the government's program”.

Based on the ministry’s rough estimates, as many as 300 people would be vaccinated every day at each hospital and about 100 people per day at clinics. In total, the government is hoping to vaccinate 75 million people within six months.

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