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Updated 26 September 2025 at 18:30 IST

Indonesia Battling Measles Outbreak: 20 Children Dead, Over 2,600 Infected in 2025 | See Photos

Indonesia has reported previous outbreaks of measles, mostly driven by gaps in vaccination coverage. Learn more details here.

Nimakshi Chanotra
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Madura Island, Indonesia
Madura Island, Indonesia | Image: AP Photo/Dita Alangkara

SUMEMEP: Three health-care workers drove motorbikes into the Indonesian city of Sumenep, carrying doses of measles vaccine and a list of children who needed them. Over 2,600 children have been infected this year, and 20 have died, as per the reports.

However, the efforts to stop the outbreak from spreading through the predominantly Muslim population are being hindered in part by concerns that some vaccines may not meet Islamic halal standards because they use a stabiliser that is derived from pigs.

Indonesia has reported previous outbreaks of measles, mostly driven by gaps in vaccination coverage.

Parents wait for their children during a measles vaccination campaign at a kindergarten in Sumenep on Madura Island, Indonesia. | Image: AP
Juvelines walk from their classrooms to get the measles shots, in Sumenep on Madura Island, Indonesia (Source: AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
A young girl is being comforted by her mother as she receives a measles vaccine during a vaccination campaign, at a Kindergarten in Sumenep on Madura Island, Indonesia (Source: AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
A health worker shows an ampule of measles-rubella vaccine during a vaccination campaign in Sumenep on Madura Island, Indonesia | Source: AP Photo/Dita Alangkara

A health worker shows an ampule of measles-rubella vaccine during a vaccination campaign in Sumenep on Madura Island, Indonesia, Monday, Sept 8, 2025.

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Health workers, Indra Kurniawan, Fera Purnamasari and Siti Nurjanah, ride their motorbikes carrying doses of measles vaccines during a house-to-house campaign, Sumenep on Madura Island, Indonesia, Source: AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
Head of local community health centre, Dr Novia Sri Wahyuni, educates about the measles vaccination in Sumenep on Madura Island, Indonesia. Source: AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
Health worker Siti Nurjanah administers a measles vaccination during a house-to-house campaign following an outbreak in Sumenep on Madura Island, Indonesia | Source: AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
Paramedic Indra Kurniawan, right, carries a cooler containing measles vaccine as he walks with his co-worker Fera Purnamasari during a door-to-door vaccination campaign, Sumenep on Madura Island, Indonesia. | Source: AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
Nurses wear their protective gowns in an isolation ward for measles patients at Moh Anwar Hospital in Sumenep on Madura Island, Indonesia. | Source: AP Photo/Dita Alangkara

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A woman carries her son at an isolation ward for measles patients, at Moh Anwar Hospital in Sumenep on Madura Island, Indonesia | Source: AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

Published By : Nimakshi Chanotra

Published On: 26 September 2025 at 18:30 IST