Jakarta, Nov. 18 -- The Indonesian government is targeting the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination coverage among girls and boys to reach 90 percent by 2030, an official from the Ministry of Health said.

"The goal is for at least 90 percent of girls and boys in the country to be vaccinated against HPV before the age of 15 by 2030," the ministry's Director of Immunization, Prima Yosephine, said here on Monday.

This, she continued, is a strategy to accelerate the elimination of HPV transmission, which causes cervical cancer.

In the immunization regime, the government is administering a single dose of vaccine to all girls in the 5th grade of primary school, or those aged 11, with the same approach applying to children not attending sch...