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This correspondence discusses a new law on Health (No. 17 of 2023), which was enacted following the Indonesian Health Transformation Plan. The Plan consists of six key pillars: the transformation of primary health care, referral health care, health resilience, health financing, human resources, and health technology. The law has made significant change on health financing as it removed the mandate to allocate 5% of the national budget and 10% of the subnational budget for health programs, leaving the political commitment for health budget not guaranteed. While political power and health administration are decentralized to subnational authorities. The dynamics surroundings of this law could provide valuable lesson learnt for Indonesia and the world.