COVID-19 Vaccination Policy: A Study on Street Level Bureaucracy and Local Government

Abstract

The explain relationship between health workers and local governments, to accelerate vaccination and its consequences for achieving Herd immunity in Indonesia. This article describes how local governments and street-level bureaucracies support the implementation of policies to accelerate COVID-19 vaccination. This research is based on the cluster analysis feature and the word frequency analysis feature on the NVivo-12 software based on reliable online news data. The results show that health workers and local governments place stigma and the front line, equipment support, and protection as dominant factors in implementing vaccination policies. Likewise, the community has a relative advantage after getting coordination, communication, and education about the benefits of vaccination. From an online media perspective, the implication is to offer insight into the unique dynamics between street-level bureaucrats and local government. It also allows us to investigate its contribution to policy outcomes as applied at the street level.