Jakarta Launches Mobile Animal Clinics to Boost Veterinary Care

Jakarta has introduced five mobile animal clinics to improve veterinary care across the city. Governor Anies Baswedan launched the initiative on Friday, emphasizing its role in maintaining Jakarta's rabies-free status and supporting its global city aspirations.

Each mobile clinic is staffed with a veterinarian and equipped with medical tools to provide a range of services. These include general health check-ups, treatment for cats, dogs, goats, and cows, minor surgeries, and sterilization procedures. The city aims to sterilize 23,000 animals by the end of 2026.

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Jakarta as a rabies-free city, of course, we must continue to support, maintain, and care for it. Therefore, the existence of this Mobile Animal Clinic, I believe, will be a very good social capital for Jakarta to maintain its status as a rabies-free city while supporting Jakarta as a global city, a center of economy, and the nation's capital.

Baswedan encouraged residents to utilize these new services, highlighting the program as a significant step toward making Jakarta a city that is welcoming to all types of animals. He noted that this initiative might be the first of its kind in Indonesia, underscoring Jakarta's commitment to animal welfare.

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I invite all people to make the best use of this service. This is a new breakthrough, perhaps the first in Indonesia, starting from Jakarta, because we want Jakarta to be an animal-friendly city, whatever the type of animal.