Indonesia’s State owned vaccine supplier, Bio Farma Get Loans US$450M from ADB
The Indonesian government recently received approval for a USD 450M loan from the Asian Development Bank to its domestic vaccine supplier PT Bio Farma to boost the country’s COVID-19 vaccine procurement which is under considerable stress owing to global...
Indonesia approves free COVID-19 vaccine drive by private companies
The Indonesian government said it would allow private companies to run coronavirus vaccination programs for workers and families alongside a nationwide drive to expedite efforts in achieving herd immunity. “The companies will provide the vaccines for free for...
Impact of Indonesia’s national health insurance scheme on inequality in access to maternal health services: A propensity score matched analysis
Reducing inequality in maternal, neonatal and infant mortality are key targets in the Sustainable Development Goals. This study evaluates the impact of Indonesia's national health insurance scheme, Jaminan Kesehatan Nasional (JKN), on access to maternal health...
Government Slammed for Spending Less on Healthcare, More on Infrastructure
Senior economist Faisal Basri during a webinar on Friday criticized the reduced healthcare budget the government had allocated in the 2021 State Budget (APBN). He highlighted the fact that the healthcare budget had dropped from Rp212.5 trillion in 2020 to...
Sustainable Financing for New Vaccines in Indonesia: Challenges and Strategies
‘The issue of sustainable financing for new vaccines is particularly pertinent as Indonesia transitions away from extensive Gavi support towards a self-financing immunization system. As the current immunization system transitions, practical solutions must be found and...
Situation Update: Response to COVID-19 in Indonesia (As of 1 March 2021)
Indonesia is procured more than 420 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine for 180 million people as of last month according to the Head of the COVID-19 Response and National Economic Recovery team (PCPEN). A breakdown of the procurement would reveal 125.5 million of the...
New BLOG: Lessons from Rapid Implementation: how the revamped system to purchase COVID services in Indonesia affected its hospitals
https://p4h.world/en/blog-how-the-revamped-system-to-purchase-COVID-services-in-Indonesia
Lessons from Rapid Implementation: how the revamped system to purchase COVID services in Indonesia affected its hospitals
The authors: Dr Anooj Pattnaik (ThinkWell Global, Deputy Director for Learning), Ryan Nugraha (ThinkWell Indonesia), Prof. Hasbullah Thabrany (ThinkWell Indonesia), and Catherine Connor (Program Director at ThinkWell). The spread of COVID-19 around the world has...
Leveraging the strengths of a mixed purchasing system for COVID-19: a perspective from Indonesia
Leveraging the strengths of a mixed purchasing system for COVID-19: a perspective from Indonesia Anooj Pattnaik, Deputy Director for Learning www.ThinkWell.global Prastuti Soewondo, Country Director, ThinkWell Indonesia Nadhila Adani, Analyst, ThinkWell Indonesia...
Health systems equity in Indonesia
Many countries are implementing reforms to support UHC. Perhaps one of the most ambitious examples of this is Indonesia’s national health scheme known as the JKN which is designed to make health care available to its entire population of 255 million. If successful,...
Hot off the press – Benefit package design and pharmaceutical policy report. The case of Indonesia by GIZ
“Financial Sustainability and Coverage Effectiveness of the Indonesian Health Insurance System - The role of benefit package design and pharmaceutical policy”. The assessment is part of the German contribution to the European Union Social Protection Systems...
The Costs of Delivering Health Services in Indonesia
The central objective of a recently published study on the cost of health service delivery in Indonesia is to provide a better understanding of the cost of delivering health services across the country. The study is expected to inform policy in a number of...
Relaunching the P4H Network in Indonesia and exploring L4UHC options
USAID/Indonesia indicated to the P4H Coordination Desk (CD) that they would like to support the establishment of P4H in the country in order to improve the dynamics and coherence of collaboration, and second, to discuss options for responding to a DJSN request about...
High Level Forum on Expanding Coverage to the Informal Sector
A High Level Forum on Expanding Coverage to the Informal Sector was held from 29 September to 2 October 2013, in Yogjakarta, Indonesia. Below is a the paper on the informal sector and UHC, a first attempt to synthesize the global evidence. Cofunded by GiZ, AusAID,...
Partnership for UHC – some suggestions
Mail from P4H CD on 26 June 2013: Please find attached a small feedback and some suggestions regarding the 'Partnership for UHC' group. It would be great if you could discuss and consider some of them during your next meeting. Btw. we're almost done with the P4H...