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Booster Vaccine in Indonesia Booster vaccine is a part of covid-19 vaccine who given to people which is already got complete dose of primary vaccine. Based on the official website of the BPOM (2022), The BPOM has officially approved six COVID-19 vaccines that can be used as boosters or homologous continued doses (booster vaccines are the same as primary vaccines) and heterologous (booster vaccines are different from primary vaccines). The type vaccines are Sinovac, AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Moderna, Janssen (J&J), and the Sinopharm vaccine. The booster dose is given through two mechanisms, namely Homolog and Heterolog. Homologous is the administration of a booster dose using the same type of vaccine as the complete primary dose previously obtained. Meanwhile Heterologist gave a booster dose by using a different type of vaccine from the complete primary dose vaccine that was previously obtained. Pfizer and Moderna are messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccines. Both were developed with a...