The urgency of legal regulations existence in case of COVID-19 vaccination refusal in Indonesia

This study investigated the problem of refusal of the COVID-19 vaccine. To solve this problem, it is necessary to develop regulations governing sanctions for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine and include these sanctions on informed consent documents. An informed consent document can be provided when health workers give a person a COVID-19 vaccine and be used as concrete evidence that a person refused to be vaccinated. This is very important considering that the COVID-19 vaccination program is expected to be able to accelerate COVID-19 management and prevention by achieving herd immunity. In this study, the researchers applied a socio-legal research method. This study investigated several aspects, the first is the issue of the refusal of the COVID-19 vaccine and the second are the legal considerations. The third aspect is a regulation model to deal with the issue of COVID-19 vaccine refusal.