JAKARTA, Sept. 13 (Xinhuanet) -- The first round of Indonesia's national vaccination drive against polio starting on August 30 was considered quite successful as it reached 95 percent of the targeted children under five years old, Indonesian Minister of Health Siti Fadilah Supari said.

    "This represents 22.1 million children out of 23.31 million children under five in 33 provinces throughout the country," she was quoted by the Jakarta Post as saying Tuesday.

    "However, the number of children paralyzed by the disease continued to rise, as the polio virus in the country has a high attack rate," she noted.

    Within the past six months, 236 children under five have contracted the disease, or seven cases higher than the figure 229 released on September 1.

    She urged parents to bring their children for the second vaccination on September 27, particularly in Papua province where the first only reached 64.8 percent of children.

    "The next round should reach 100 percent of children, so that there will be no more polio cases found in the country, and we canachieve the target of making Indonesia free of polio by 2008," Fadilah was quoted by the Jakarta Post as saying Tuesday. Enditem