The government in Indonesia has been criticised for prioritising social media influencers along with health workers in its roll out of the COVID-19 vaccine.

The Health Ministry that it hoped that the strategy will "help educate the people and set an example that vaccination is safe and important.”

According to Reuters, a poll carried out in December showed just 37% of Indonesians were willing to be vaccinated while 40% would consider it and 17% would refuse.

The footage shows front line workers receiving the vaccine at a hospital in Padang.

Indonesia started giving vaccine injections to health workers in all its regions after first injecting the vaccine to Indonesia's President Jokowi.

As seen in the video recording, the provision of vaccines for health workers took place at the Padang City auxiliary hospital on January 20, 2021.

The West Sumatran provincial government has focused as many as 18,000 health workers on the vaccine with a total vaccine dose of approximately 36,000.

because every health worker gets two shots of the vaccine. After the successful injection of vaccines to all health workers in all regions of Indonesia, the Indonesian government will target vaccines for all people in general in March 2021.

In administering this vaccine, Mela Aryati as the head of the auxiliary hospital in Padang said "the administration of the Synovac vaccine must be fully prepared, one of which is that the health worker who gives the vaccine must check the health of prospective vaccine recipients without symptoms of high blood pressure, diabetes, and cancer ".