I Have Scientists to Back Me Up

Since the start of the pandemic, BPOM Chief Penny Kusumastuti Lukito often found herself at the center of Covid-related polemics, from drug claims, emergency use authorizations, vaccines, ivermectin to the Nusantara vaccine. How does she deal with these?

Mahardika Satria Hadi

September 13, 2021

SINCE September 11, Drug and Food Monitoring Agency (BPOM) Penny Kusumastuti Lukito has been in the United States to visit vaccine research centers in Boston, Massachusetts, and Houston, Texas. She is on a mission to realize the national vaccine self-sufficiency through cooperation with these institutions. In Houston, she is scheduled to visit the research center of the Baylor College of Medicine which developed a recombinant protein vaccine

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