It was in the news weeks ago that booster shots will be available for sale from 12 January 2022, that means anyone can buy it, including foreigners. The date passed without any further announcement, instead the news is about free booster shots for senior citizens and medical workers only, but must be WNI. So how about the WNA (who are willing to pay for it)?
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How can foreigners get COVID-19 booster shots in Indonesia?
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I heard the news said "only for WNI". It is possible the system or app doesn't discriminate WNI or WNA, but you will have problem when you show up in person. Those WNA you got the FREE 1st and 2nd jabs must be extremely "lucky" to pass the screening.
Anyway, any foreigner in this forum who got contacted or got the booster shot for FREE, please confirm.
And those who haven't been contacted or refused the FREE booster shot because s/he is a WNA, please shout it here.
Finally, if anyone know where to buy or when the selling starts, please be so kind to advise the details.
Make sure you have the latest update of the Pendulilindungi App, open the app / account / Vaccination Histroy & Tickets / Your Name / & there you should see First Vaccine, Second Vaccine, ...& as I did this just now to my surprise it says Third Vaccine so my wife just rang our local Puskesmas who said they do not have a schedule yet but to keep checking on instagram.
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Just looked at my app and I have it too. It does say to check the tickets regularly.
For the forum's benefit, I got the third shot yesterday, free. The catch is that you have to call around to see which health clinic is giving shots that day and whether they have any extra to give out. As it turns out, the local Puskesmas was doing grade school kids that day using Sinovac, but they have some AZ leftover from a previous drive, and told me to come down.
We handed our KTPs (I handed my KTP-OA) to the officer, who asked us to wait a bit. They did all the kids, then called us up for our turn. This time just a blood pressure screening and quick interview, then jab. Wait about 15 minutes for a printed certificate, and e-certificate showed up on Peduli Lindungi today.
We handed our KTPs (I handed my KTP-OA) to the officer, who asked us to wait a bit. They did all the kids, then called us up for our turn. This time just a blood pressure screening and quick interview, then jab. Wait about 15 minutes for a printed certificate, and e-certificate showed up on Peduli Lindungi today.
1, 2 was Sinovac, 3 was AZ.
They were doing Lansia booster shots AZ this morning in Benoa , my wife had some information yesterday from the local banjar , filled in the Puskesmas online form , vaccination confirmation came in by WA .
It was quite busy the wait time was around an hour , quite ok .
It was quite busy the wait time was around an hour , quite ok .
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I didn't follow most covid related news or discussions fora few months, does anyone know how the official current booster politic looks like? I mean, are boosters also mandatory now and will health/vaccine apps and so on expire like in some other countries?
In parts of Europe I think the covid pass will only be valid with a booster in a few months (something like 6 months out from the 2nd jab) but every country applies restrictions differently. I doubt that'll be the case in Indonesia but I don't think they made any announcement about that. Anyway, it's not possible to impose restrictions when the vast majority of the population has no access to a booster shot as is the case here at the moment.
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Yes I also always doubted that Indonesia will be able to keep this up in the same way as other countries. Anyway, I was proven wrong and surprised many times during this pandemic so lets see. Dont wanna be too off topic.
Gotta admit I had my 3rd shots back in late November when they first started talking about the possibility of booster (wife's sister in law's cousin, who knows somebody etc etc.) got a bit of quota of 15 people. I wanted to wait for the government booster, but as usual, wife vetoed my decision and off I went with her to get the shot. Got the shot on Friday morning. Sinovac. Same as my 1st and 2nd. Paid the nurse 200K. Felt fine the whole day. Saturday started feeling quite sluggish and lagging a bit and dragging into Sunday. Took a day off on Monday although I was feeling up to 80% (felt healthy enough but didn't want to drive over an hour+ to work and back) so...WFH I did. Felt pretty normal by Tuesday. Definitely stronger reaction than my 1st jab. Didn't feel that much on my 2nd...oh yeah. Not updated in pedulilindungi. However, I was asked for my KTP prior to the shot and I gave my KTP OA. Front desk guy took the info and gave back my KTP.
Now....reading about the auto notification news that I might get notified if my time is up for my '3rd' shot. Do I disregard it then? I don't think I wanna do a 4th shot....
Now....reading about the auto notification news that I might get notified if my time is up for my '3rd' shot. Do I disregard it then? I don't think I wanna do a 4th shot....
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Looks like the AZ booster is at 1/2 dose....how were you feeling after?
Just a bit sore in the arm for a couple of days, all gone now. No fever or other symptoms.
A slightly bruised arm , intermittent dry cough , a little weak , now 2nd day after jab 95% ok .
I felt stronger reactions to AZ , sinovac I felt almost nothing .
Anyway anything that stops me getting really sick ,im grateful for .
I had 2 AZ in Jakarta and was lucky to get my booster while visiting my home country for xmas. Got the moderna shot (the day before flying back here...It was the only day they opened up to my age group so no way around it). I felt pretty rough the morning after getting it but the symptoms only lasted about 12 hours. My arm wasn't even that sore this time around. Much lower reaction than I had to the 2 x AZ shots here.
My pedulilindungi application isn't offering me a 3rd shot option here - maybe I'm too young? Glad to have it done already as I think the omnicrom wave is probably starting here now.
