Examining the Indonesian national health insurance

Indonesia is moving towards an integrated social protection system. Indonesia has also started a new scheme on national health insurance.

Press release | Jakarta, Indonesia | 09 November 2015
JAKARTA (ILO News): Indonesia is moving towards an integrated social protection system. Indonesia has also started a new scheme on national health insurance. To support the application of this new scheme, the International Labour Organization (ILO) in collaboration with the Australian Award Alumni Reference Group on Health and the Indonesian Doctor Association (IDI) Jakarta, will organize a seminar on the two-year implementation of the national health insurance on Monday, 9 November in Jakarta. The seminar is organized in conjunction with the National Health Day which falls on 12 November.

The seminar is aimed to provide a forum for exchanging information and knowledge on the dynamic development of national health insurance so that they can implement international standards for public health within the range of health national insurance. It also provides a venue for further dialogue among the participants on achievements, challenges and lesson learnt during the two-year implementation of the scheme as mean to improve the implementation of national health insurance, particularly for the participating health practitioners and administrators.

Various issues covered by the seminar include Social Protection Floor (SPF), efforts taken to realize the National Health Insurance Programme, workers’ access to health insurance and ethical dilemma. The seminar presents speakers from the ILO, Healthcare and Social Security Agency (BPJS Kesehatan), Ministry of Health, Workers’ Organization and IDI.

In the seminar, the ILO will further discuss about SPF which promotes basic social security rights and universal coverage. The ILO adopted the SPF Recommendation No. 202 in June 2012. The SPF aims at a situation where all residents have access to essential health care, all children have access to education, nutrition and care, all working age population and elderly enjoy basic income security in particular in cases of sickness, unemployment, maternity, disability and old age.

Indonesia has implemented the Universal Health Coverage (Jaminan Kesehatan Nasional/JKN) since January 2014. This relatively new scheme aims to ensuring that all people have access to promotion, preventive, curative and rehabilitative health services, of sufficient quality to be effective, while at the same time making sure that people do not suffer financial hardship when paying for these services.

For further information please contact:

Grace M. Halim
ILO’s Programme Officer
Tel.: +6221 3913112 ext. 160
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Gita Lingga
ILO’s Communications Officer
Tel.: +6221 3913112 ext. 115
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