Indonesia launches $183 million free health screening program
Indonesia has introduced a nationwide free health screening program to prevent early deaths, allocating 3 trillion rupiah ($183 million) to the initiative that aims to screen 100M people in 2025. Indonesia has launched its largest-ever health screening program,...
Indonesia strengthens health expenditure tracking to advance universal health coverage
Indonesia is enhancing health expenditure tracking to improve resource allocation and accelerate progress toward universal health coverage (UHC). Supported by WHO, the Ministry of Health is adopting advanced tools to refine spending analysis and strengthen health...
World Health Organization supports Indonesia’s national health insurance expansion
The end of biennium results report 2022-2023 showed the significant outcomes of national health insurance expansion in Indonesia and highlighted contribution of Word Health Organization (WHO) in support this transformation. Since 2014, Indonesia has introduced a...
Indonesia pushes for health transformation
Indonesia's Coordinating Economic Minister Airlangga Hartarto has underscored the need for health transformation to achieve the Golden Indonesia 2045 vision.According to Antara News, as report by Rahmad Nasution, on June 6, 2024, Coordinating Minister for Economic...
Indonesia’s Health Ministry unveils new funding initiative for climate-resilient health system
Indonesia's Health Ministry, in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the World Health Organization (WHO), unveiled a new funding initiative to build a more climate-resilient health system.According to Asia News Network, reported by...
BPJS Kesehatan’s strategy to protect 275 million Indonesians with health insurance
BPJS-Kesehatan is a social security administering body for health which manages the national health insurance called Jaminan Kesehatan Nasional (JKN) in Indonesia. In an interview with in the GovInsider, Ghufron Mukti, President Director of BPJS Kesehatan outlined how...
Indonesia has reached 95.77 % of health insurance population coverage
In Indonesia, health insurance population coverage has reached to 95.77% in 2023, aligning with a goal set in the 2024 National Medium-term Development Plan.The population coverage target for 2024 is 113 million people insured with full premium subsidies by the state...
PMAC side meeting – financing of primary health care in Southeast Asia Region
On 22 January 2024, PMAC side meeting – financing of primary health care in Southeast Asia Region was held in Bangkok, Thailand. This event was co-organized by WHO South-East Asia Region, Chulalongkorn University, and Mahidol University. In this side meeting, P4H...
Indonesia shows significant progress towards universal health coverage with financial sustainability
Indonesia has made significant progress towards universal health coverage in terms of population coverage and financial risk protection. While multiple measures have been adopted to ensure its financial sustainability.Jaminan Kesehatan Nasional (JKN) is a National...
WHO Webinar: Making health insurance responsive to citizens
The Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research with the WHO Health Financing Unit organised a Webinar on 23 March, 1 PM CET, to share outcomes of a programme of research to understand how initiatives to empower citizens have contributed to enabling them to...
Indonesia’s health budget realization has decreased
COVID-19 led to a rise of health expenditures to curb the pandemic and prevent the population from catastrophic health expenditures. Due to better control of COVID-19 pandemic, Indonesia’s health spending decreased by 19.6 percent compared to last year. A majority of...
Indonesia government to gradually reduce COVID treatment subsidies
Due to the downward trend of COVID-19 cases, the Indonesia government will slowly stop subsidizing the treatment costs of COVID-19 patients. The source of funding for COVID-19 treatment will be shifted from the government to the national health insurance program or...
New document on equity of health financing in Indonesia is now available
In 2014, Indonesia launched a single payer national health insurance scheme or the JKN, expecting to cover the entire population by 2024. This study aims to assess the equity of the health financing system in Indonesia during 2015 – 2019 by analysing a secondary...
BPJS Kesehatan adopts performance related capitation to boost promotional-preventive services in Indonesia
In Indonesia, BPJS Kesehatan, a Social Security Agency, committed to optimize promotional and preventive services at public primary health care centers. To incentive them, capitation payment is aligned to promotional-preventive service performance of the primary...
New document on benefit incidence analysis in Indonesia is now available
Indonesia has introduced the National Health Insurance System or Jaminan Kesehatan Nasional (JKN) in 2014 to achieve universal health coverage by 2024. This study aimed to assess the benefit incidence of healthcare funding after the JKN implementation and its...