The dengue control programme in Yogyakarta city is
largely the responsibility of the district health office.
Dengue prevention and control have become a
priority consisting of disease surveillance, vector
control and community education. Vector control is
almost exclusively implemented by larvae control
workers who are hired within the communities by the
district health officer for certain periods of time; they
are usually young and have little training in larvae
control and are far too few to cover the whole city
at short intervals. The community education programme is limited in terms of quantity and coverage.
The 3M campaign (Menguras, Menutup, Mengubur
– clean, close and bury water containers) is a
nationwide clean up campaign which is well known
both in the country and internationally but has not
been evaluated formally