The Vaccination Policy Dilemma: Between Government Responsibility and the Rights of Citizens
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.211112.007How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Restructuring; Vaccine Obligations; Citizen Rights; Regulation Health
- Abstract
The effort to restructure people’s lives in this epidemic era has focused on public health conditions. Therefore, mass vaccines were enacted as an effort to handling Covid 19. The obligation for vaccines has been announced several times, referring to Law No. 6 of 2018 and most recently is The Presidential Regulation No. 14 of 2021. However, these obligations are not in line with Law No. 36 of 2009, Article 9, which states that every person has the right to independently determine health services for themself, which means that every individual has the right to choose whether to be vaccinated or not. Many reasons to refuse vaccines have been delivered, such as anxiety about the impact, religious factors about halal or haram, and distrust of policymakers. However, the regulations imposed on the community are an effort for the benefit of the community. This effort is based on an understanding of the condition of knowledge, culture, and community comfort. The analysis method has been used in this research was legal research, a study of literature, and self-experience. Based on the results of legal research, the study of literature, and self-experience with data collection from various constitutions, presidential regulations, ministerial regulations of health and governor regulations related to vaccines and health, it can be explained that vaccines in the current pandemic era need to be done by every citizen with full of awareness without coercion, moreover criminal threat.
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- © 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
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- This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.
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TY - CONF AU - Nur Fitriah AU - Galih Ismoyo Yantho AU - Yuni Sri Dwijayanti AU - Farhand Diansyah PY - 2021 DA - 2021/11/23 TI - The Vaccination Policy Dilemma: Between Government Responsibility and the Rights of Citizens BT - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Law and Human Rights 2021 (ICLHR 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 54 EP - 59 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211112.007 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.211112.007 ID - Fitriah2021 ER -