Indonesia to redirect stimulus funds toward mass vaccination

JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/ANN): The government is planning to reallocate some of this year’s remaining stimulus funds to pay for mass vaccination in 2021.

By Dec. 14, the government had spent 70 per cent – or Rp 481.6 trillion (US$34.12 billion) – of the nation’s Rp 695.2 trillion stimulus package in an effort to strengthen the healthcare system and tend to the economy as it reeled from the coronavirus outbreak.