Jakarta, Aug. 20 -- Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin said biosecurity should be treated as a core part of Indonesia's national defense, warning that health threats such as pandemics, non-communicable diseases, and natural disasters are deadlier than conventional warfare.
"Health issues pose a major threat to national security," Sadikin said during a visit with Defense Minister Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin to a logistics site in Cibitung, West Java, on Wednesday.
He cited the COVID-19 pandemic as a key example of the importance of cross-sectoral collaboration, noting that Indonesia was only able to vaccinate 270 million people within 18 months after working with the Indonesian Military (TNI) and other stakeholders.
"In the first three months ...
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