{"id":22828,"date":"2021-12-14T21:29:47","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T21:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adra.org\/?p=22828"},"modified":"2026-03-23T19:23:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T19:23:12","slug":"adra-ignites-national-campaign-in-indonesia-to-protect-elderly-during-the-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adra.org\/fr\/adra-ignites-national-campaign-in-indonesia-to-protect-elderly-during-the-pandemic","title":{"rendered":"ADRA lance une campagne nationale en Indon\u00e9sie pour prot\u00e9ger les personnes \u00e2g\u00e9es pendant la pand\u00e9mie"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Indonesia) December 14, 2021 – The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) in Indonesia has made the elderly their top priority for being inoculated against COVID-19. The new project, Elderly First<\/em>, is designed to help those of advanced years to get communities access to the vaccine in four provinces, namely: East Java (Ngawi, Tuban, Bojonegoro districts), West Java (Bogor, Bandung), Central Sulawesi (Sigi), and West Sulawesi (Mamuju). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A medical volunteer working with ADRA administers a vaccine to an elderly man. Photo credit: Lenky Noor. <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen the vaccine was first made available in January, health and public workers were Indonesia\u2019s chief concern,\u201d says Clinton Rappel, ADRA\u2019s country director in Indonesia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Local reports indicated that 50 percent of those who were dying from COVID-19 were above 60 years of age, particularly among those with comorbidities, such as cardiovascular disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and chronic kidney disease. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe realized that it was crucial to enable the elderly to get vaccinated. Unfortunately, Indonesia has faced two major stumbling blocks for its vaccination target. There is a low level of public vaccine acceptance and the availability of the vaccine,\u201d Rappel says. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

ADRA united with local Adventist church leaders and volunteers administering surveys and printed material from door to door. The team found that most of the elderly had little access to information on the virus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis group rarely has a cell phone,\u201d says Rappel. \u201cThey know there is a virus spread but no idea how the virus is transmitted or how they should protect themselves from being infected. The report also revealed that those living in extreme poverty are often afraid to come to health facilities because they fear encountering the virus at the health facility.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rappel adds that very few older adults have enough money or a helper to assist them with transportation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSome are living with their children, who go to work during the day. Many of that generation also prefer to use traditional medicine or purchase generic drugs in nearby kiosks,\u201d he says.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

ADRA decided to try a different approach and designed a website and online platform, which has become one of the top referral websites in Indonesia related to elderly vaccination. Videos were created to provide information about the virus and testimonies of people who received the vaccine. ADRA also trained volunteers and organized teams to simplify the process of getting the elderly to the vaccination sites. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe goal for this year is to enable 6,000 senior citizens to get the first and second doses,\u201d says Rappel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The project has directly contributed to government efforts to speed up the vaccinations to reduce mortality rates because of the pandemic, adds Rappel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the World Bank, Indonesia has been recently downgraded from an upper-middle income country to a lower-middle income country because of a decline in per capita income. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more information on ADRA\u2019s efforts in Indonesia, visit ICI<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

L'Agence adventiste de d\u00e9veloppement et de secours (ADRA) en Indon\u00e9sie a fait des personnes \u00e2g\u00e9es sa priorit\u00e9 absolue en mati\u00e8re de vaccination contre le COVID-19. <\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22835,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[780,284,614,789,11],"tags":[741,774,1151,690],"class_list":["post-22828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-health","category-news","category-philippines","category-press-release","tag-adventist-church","tag-covid-19","tag-immunizations","tag-protection"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22828"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45729,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22828\/revisions\/45729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}