Police officers in Padang dressed up as cartoon characters to accompany children that were having their COVID-19 vaccines.

Footage from February 3 shows the officers in the costumes putting the children at ease as they receive their jabs.

Around 7,000 children have been vaccinating in the past week, according to reports.

A unique way is carried out by the Indonesian police to control the psychology of children in the city of Padang by vaccinating children aged 6-11 years, February 3, 2022 at Al-Azhar Elementary School.

so that children are not afraid of the vaccination process and health workers. The Indonesian Police in the Padang City area is one of the Transformers and Doraemon anime.

Padang city police chief, police commissioner Imran Amir said "this is solely to control the psychology of children who tend to be afraid of medical personnel and injection needles,".

when Indonesia is intensively vaccinating children to have resistance to the spread of COVID-19 and the new variant of Omicran, which has also been found in Indonesia.

In the city of Padang, in the last week approximately 7,000 children.