Dalam rangka pencegahan dan penanggulangan Swine Flu (H1N1) untuk mencegah pandemic influenza A H1N1 di Indonesia, pemerintah melalui Departemen Kesehatan RI yang menetapkan 6 strategi Indonesia dalam kesiapsiagaan pandemi influenza sebagai berikut:

1. Penguatan Kantor Kesehatan Pelabuhan (KKP):

Indonesia memiliki 48 kantor kesehatan pelabuhan dan sekitar 25 diantaranya mempunyai akses internasional. Ada beberapa upaya penguatan yang dilakukan di kantor kesehatan pelabuhan yaitu: 

• Pemberlakuan Health Alert Card
• Penerapan radio pratique
• Kesiapan petugas dalam memantau penumpang yang datang
• Pemasangan thermal scanner
• Penyiapan alat pelindung diri (APD)
• Penyiapan klinik di kantor kesehatan pelabuhan dengan obat dan perlengkapannya
• Penyiapan sarana rujukan bila diperlukan

2. Logistik terutama obat dan APD

• Penyediaan obat tamiflu dalam jumlah yang cukup
• Pendistribusian sampai di tingkat puskesmas

3. Penyiapan Rumah Sakit

• Kesiapan 100 rumah sakit rujukan
• Ketersediaan obat
• Ketersediaan ruang isolasi
• Petugas kesehatan yang terampil
• Prosedur diagnosis dan terapi

4. Penguatan surveilans Epidemiologi

• Mengintensifkan surveilans Influenza Like Illness (ILI) di 20 puskesmas sentinel
• Mengintensifkan surveilans SARI di 15 Rumah Sakit sentinel
• Menambah lokasi sentinel ILI di 25 puskesmas baru
• Surveilans Pneumonia dan SARI di sarana kesehatan (Puskesmas &  Rumah Sakit)
• Intensifikasi surveilans di pelabuhan laut dan udara, terutama pelabuhan/bandara  internasional
• Surveilans di  masyarakat termasuk rumors verifikasi

• Mengintensifkan laboratorium regional
• Pemenuhan reagensia

6. Komunikasi Edukasi dan Informasi (KIE)

• Pembuatan spanduk di tempat-tempat umum
• Pembuatan stiker/pamplet/brosur dan media komunikasi lainnya
• Melakukan jumpa press dan press release secara berkala
• Memberikan penjelasan ke masyarakat melalui berbagai media massa cetak dan elektronik
• Pemberdayaan masyarakat melalui desa siaga

Indonesian Government’s Precautionary Steps

Addressing the Spread of H1N1 Virus 

Ministry of Health has organized constructive strategies to prevent and tackle the spread of Swine Flu / H1N1 in Indonesia, the strategies are as follows:

1. Enforcement of  Medical Offices in Ports

Indonesia has 48 medical offices posted in ports and 25 of which have international access. There are several attempts qualified as the enforcement of medical offices at ports: 

• Health Alert Card Appliance;
• Utilization of Thermal Scanner;
• Protective Equipment supplied at the ports;
• Assignment of medical clinic and its supporting utility including medicine;
• Information of Reference facilities for patients who need further intensive treatments.

• Tamiflu vaccines in sufficient quantity;
• The line of distribution reach the small unit of medical treatment centers; 

3. Progressive Transformation of Hospitals

• Establishment of one hundred reference hospitals  to treat patients infected with H1N1 virus
• Medicines supply
• Quarantine Room
• Well instructed medical workers
• Diagnosis Procedure and Theraphy; 

4. Enforcement of Epidemiology Surveillance

• Intensifying Influenza Like Illness (ILI) surveillance in 20 appointed clinics;
• Intensifying H1N1 alert surveillance in 15 appointed hospitals;
• Intensifying surveillance in seaports/airports;
• Identifying and verifying rumors from society of possible H1N1 infection   

5. Enforcement of Medical Laboratory

6. Dissemination of information to the People of H1N1 Virus

• Deployment of informative banner in public spaces
• Distribution of leaflets on H1N1 virus
• Convene press conferences and issue press releases in inclusive manner