CHAIR of the Food and Drug Monitoring Agency (BPOM) Penny Kusumastuti Lukito has stated that Nusantara vaccine promoted by former health minister Terawan Agus Putranto fails to abide by medical norms. One of the reasons is the location of research was different from that of the ethical committee issuing the trial license.

The clinical trial license was issued by the Gatot Soebroto Army Central Hospital in Jakarta. Meanwhile, the research was con