Erick Thohir suggests that people can afford Corona vaccines

Jakarta, CNN Indonesia –

Minister BUMN as well as the Executive Director of the Committee for the Management of Covid-19 and National Economic Recovery (PCPEN) Erick Thohir will propose two financing models corona vaccine to the government and the House of Representatives.

First, government-funded aid vaccines. For this model, the government will take funds from the APBN.

Meanwhile, the target or community to be assisted is BPJS Kesehatan participants from the poor whose contributions are assisted by the government.

Erick estimates that there are 93 million poor people who are likely to receive this assistance.

Second, an independent vaccine that is self-funded by the community. This proposal was presented considering the financial situation of the state, which is currently being completely exhausted to deal with the corona virus and its effects.

For this standalone vaccine to work, Erick said he had reached out to multiple parties, one of which was the business community and also employees.

“We really hope that people who have money can help the state finances by making independent vaccines, also known as non-free,” Erick said in a scientific sentence at Padjadjaran University, Bandung, quoted by Between, Friday (9/11).

Erick admitted that there are various abilities of various groups to support independent vaccines. One of them is from employees.

(agt / bir)