STOP Pneumonia program was launched as part of a Global Campaign to mark the 100th anniversary of Save the children. Save the Children in Indonesia through the STOP Pneumonia campaign program focuses on increasing awareness leading to changes in the behaviour of the target public, strengthening the capacity of health workers, implementing delivery services for beneficiaries, intensive cross-stakeholder socialization, social mobilization and parenting campaigns to strengthen father’s roles in the family through an integrated childhood pneumonia management approach: protect, prevent, and treat. The STOP Pneumonia campaign was designed based on several situation analysis studies in Bandung and West Sumba Districts during September – November 2018 (Download). The conclusions and recommendations of the study are the importance of coordinating and supporting the Bandung District Health Office and 21 working area Community Health Centres (Puskesmas) to overcome preventable deaths childhood pneumonia.

19,000 children in Indonesia died from pneumonia in 2018 which translates to more than two children every hour and accounts for 16% of all under-5 deaths in the country.

On January 29, 2020, as part of keynote address at the Barcelona Pneumonia Forum, Suharso Monoarfa, Indonesia’s Minister for National Development Planning, said, “It gives me great pleasure today to announce that the Government of Indonesia is committed to proceeding with the special mechanism for PCV procurement through the Gavi Advance Market Commitment.”

Statement of Budi Gunadi Sadikin, Ministry of Health the Republic of Indonesia on Saturday, May 8th, 2021 on the webinar of World Immunization Day commemoration:

“… we are developing strategic plan of reformation of health as instructed by Mr. President. We have decided that Indonesia, begins next year will undertake vaccination for 14 types of antigen nationally.  Thus, we will undertake PCV and HVV vaccination nationally and will add with rotavirus vaccination also at national level. Why, because one of National Mid-term Development Plan (RPJMN) is to decrease maternal mortality and child mortality rate and we know that many child birth and neo natal died due to diarrhoea and pneumonia. Therefore, with rotavirus vaccination and PCV vaccination, we expect able to decrease maternal mortality and child mortality rate significantly and by its per capita relatively cheaper.

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn2mfoX1COU at 24:08 – 25:15)