Health
From The Report: Indonesia 2018
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Aiming to bring its population of more than 250m under coverage by 2019, Indonesia continues to roll out its universal health care programme, or Jaminan Kesehatan Nasional (JKN). State-driven developments, as well as activity in the private sector, are triggering impressive growth across the health industry. According to estimates from consultancy Frost and Sullivan, the value of Indonesia’s health care market will reach $21bn in 2019, up from $7bn in 2014. However, government expenditure on health care remains relatively low at just 3.6% of GDP, one of the lowest rates in South-east Asia. In the years to come, greater investment will be vital as demand for services, facilities and equipment increases under JKN.

This chapter contains an interview with Fachmi Idris, President Director, BPJS Kesehatan.

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Overview

Universal coverage: Public and private initiatives are supporting sector growth
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Aiming to bring its population of nearly 240m under coverage by 2019, Indonesia continues to roll out its universal health care programme, or Jaminan Kesehatan Nasional (JKN). State-driven developments, as well as activity in the private sector, are triggering impressive growth across the health industry. According to estimates from consultancy Frost and Sullivan, the value of Indonesia’s health care market value will reach $21bn in 2019, up from $7bn in 2014. However, government expenditure…

Interview

Social care: Fachmi Idris, President Director, BPJS Kesehatan, on rolling out the universal health care (UHC) programme Social care
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Interview: Fachmi Idris What challenges are posed in terms of customer satisfaction and access to the UHC programme? FACHMI IDRIS: The satisfaction of our members is very important, but also one of our biggest challenges. The UHC programme is very ambitious, and the government has set the target of covering the entire Indonesian population by January 1, 2019. We began this process in 2014. We recognise that it is not easy to be the biggest single-payer institution in the world for social insurance. Of…