Erick Thohir, Bill Gates Discuss Cooperation in Pharmacy
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3 November 2021 16:53 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - State-owned Enterprises (SOEs) Minister Erick Thohir in his latest Instagram post on Wednesday said he had met with Bill Gates, in talks of expanding partnership between the Gates Foundation and state-owned pharmaceutical firm Bio Farma.
Thohir said he was tasked to represent President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo and was accompanied by Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati and Coordinating Minister of Economics Airlangga Hartarto.
“Apart from discussing climate change, we also talked about Gates Foundation’s interest in partnering with Bio Farma in technology transfer development of mRNA vaccines,” Erick Thohir wrote on his social media post on November 3.
The Minister conveyed his contentment and deemed the meeting to be an acknowledgement of Bio Farma’s major role in the production and distribution of Covid-19 vaccines in Indonesia.
“I am certain that we will be able to push the development of national biotechnology products,” the Minister wrote in the post that was liked 20,000 times and garnered 578 comments.
Read: Bill Gates Calls for COVID-19 Meds to Go to People Who Need Them
HENDARTYO HANGGI
