Solidarity, Resilience and Hope in the COVID-19 Response

Highlights

Indonesia has enjoyed a steady progress in improving its maternal and child health over the past two decades, until the COVID-19 pandemic posed risks of setbacks. Crucial measures to curb transmissions, along with refocused resources for COVID-19 response, led to inevitable disruptions in essential health services, including for mothers and children. With its various efforts, Indonesia manages to suppress transmissions overtime, with a total of 6 million COVID-19 cases and 155,000 deaths as of August 2022.

UNICEF’s multisectoral support to the Government of Indonesia (GOI) through this time has contributed to effective COVID-19 response and COVID-19 vaccine roll-out, both of which go hand in hand to fulfil the rights of its 80 million children to the highest attainable standard of health and well-being. UNICEF was equipped to identify and provide technical assistance during the response, while considering location-specific contexts through its seven field offices in the province of Aceh, East Java, East Nusa Tenggara, Maluku, Papua, South Sulawesi and West Papua.