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Sumenep, East Java, Indonesia – 8 September 2025
1. Health workers sit on the porch of a house in village while a mother stands holding her daughter
2. Hand drawing vaccine from bottle
3. Mother carrying her daughter
4. Vaccine injected into girl’s arm
5. Health worker rides a motorcycle passing through village road
6. Health worker walks toward another resident’s house in village
7. Ahmad Syamsuri, head of Disease Control and Prevention, at the Sumenep Health Office
8. Name tag
9. SOUNDBITE (Indonesian): Ahmad Syamsuri, the head of Disease Control and Prevention at the Sumenep Health Office:
"We are still facing issues regarding halal and haram related to the contents of the vaccine, even though the Indonesian Ulema Council has already issued a fatwa (permitting it)."
10. Street shot, Jamik Mosque
11. Various of people jogging in front of the mosque
12. Women gathering in kindergarten yard
13. Health worker sitting under banner reading "Let’s support the measles Outbreak Response Immunization (ORI) campaign in Sumenep Regency" while preparing to administer the vaccine.
14. Hand drawing vaccine from its bottle
15. Health worker preparing shots
14. Toddler crying when the vaccine is injected
15. Mothers bringing their vaccinated children to kindergarten yard
16. SOUNDBITE (Indonesian): Pujiati Wahyuni, Muslim mother and nurse:
"Islam is a great religion, and many Muslims exist. Maybe some of them do not want to get vaccinated, and that has been the case since long ago, not just now."
Sumenep, East Java, Indonesia – 9 September 2025
17. Pan right of Islamic boarding school
18. Signboard of the Islamic educational foundation "Raudlatul Athfal – AlIhsan, Sumenep, Madura."
19. Various Islamic boarding school students reciting the Quran in mosque
20. Musthafa, the general secretary of the Indonesian Ulema Council in Sumenep, talking with guest
21. SOUNDBITE (Indonesian) Musthafa, general secretary of the Indonesian Ulema Council in Sumenep:
"We have high hopes for Muslims in Indonesia, where the number is very large, who are the ones consuming the vaccine. Let’s ask the government, in this case the Health Office and the Ministry of Health, to find a halal vaccine."
21. Pan left from Moh Anwar hospital to the infectious disease isolation building
22. Pan of measles isolation room
23. Nurses working at their stations
Sumenep, East Java, Indonesia – 6 September 2025
24. Various nurses walking out of the isolation room
Sumenep, East Java, Indonesia – 8 September 2025
25. Women attending a socialization event for measles immunization
26. Doctor speaking to the women
27. Women listening
28. SOUNDBITE (Indonesian) Ayu Resa Etika, Mother:
“There is some doubt because it is not halal. But despite all that, this is for the sake of the child’s health. The effects are quite serious; it can cause death. I am afraid that if my son is not vaccinated against measles, that is the risk. So it’s okay, as long as the effects are good.”
29. Tilt up from Erika’s toddler being vaccinated to Erika’s happy face
STORYLINE:
Three health care workers rode motorbikes into the Indonesian city of Sumenep, carrying doses of measles vaccine and a list of children who needed them. With blue medical boxes in hand, they went from house to house administering the life-saving shots.
Religious concerns drive vaccine hesitancy for some in Sumenep, although many are reluctant to even discuss these concerns.
The Serum Institute declined The Associated Press’ request for comment.
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