Jakarta, March 7 -- The Indonesian Agency for International Development (Indonesian AID), has sent vaccine assistance comprising 10 million bOPV (bivalent oral polio vaccine) doses to Afghanistan.

The assistance was sent off by Foreign Affairs Minister Retno Marsudi and Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati from Soekarno Hatta Airport, Tangerang, Banten, on Thursday.

Marsudi, in a written statement, said that the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan has not yet started to improve.

She cited UN World Food Programme (WFP) data, which has estimated that 23.7 million Afghans are in need of humanitarian assistance.

The inadequate health situation in the country has left people vulnerable to infectious diseases. Afghanistan is also one of...