Unusual venue: A health worker inoculating a woman during a mass vaccination exercise at a zoo in Surabaya. — AFP
A shortage of healthcare workers and logistical flaws are hampering Indonesia’s efforts to inoculate its people against Covid-19, leaving the world’s largest archipelago trailing its neighbours despite being among the first in South-East Asia to start the programme.
Only 17.9% of Indonesia’s 270 million people are fully vaccinated, behind almost every major economy in the region, according to Bloomberg Vaccine Tracker.
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