#healthcare and social security

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Health ministry pays Rp7.1-tln claims to hospitals handling COVID-19

The Ministry of Health has paid claims amounting to Rp7.1 trillion to COVID-19 handling hospitals derived from the ...

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Indonesia relying on vaccine procurement to win COVID-19 fight

The Indonesian government has consistently expressed confidence in the potential of COVID-19 vaccines to help it win ...

Government reckons COVID-19 vaccine to be available by Nov 2020

The Indonesian government gauged that supplies of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine will be available by ...

Government's Tapera program will be added burden on workforce: KSPSI

The government's latest public housing savings program (Tapera), necessitating employees and employers to ...

Establish health coverage norms for coronavirus patients: President

President Joko Widodo has asked the Minister of Health to implement the necessary norms, standards, and procedures for ...

Jokowi confirms Rp115-trillion government spending on BPJS health

The government had spent Rp115 trillion on Indonesian healthcare insurance BPJS Health until 2018, according to ...

President highlights need to streamline BPJS management

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has reaffirmed the need for the Healthcare and Social Security Agency (BPJS Kesehatan) ...

Rais exhorts government to delay capital city relocation

National Mandate Party (PAN) patron Amien Rais has appealed to the central government to delay its plan to move ...

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Awaiting people's participation in new capital city-related decision

The Indonesian Government's decision to relocate the country's capital city from Jakarta to East Kalimantan ...

Indonesia targets mercury-free healthcare by 2020

The Indonesian government, through the health ministry, has targeted to phase out mercury-containing medical devices in ...

Hospital surveillance tougher in National Health Insurance era

The supervision of hospital services was getting more stringent in the era of National Health Insurance (JKN), ...

Banten governor protests decision to downgrade 21 hospitals

Banten Governor Wahidin Halim has protested against the Health Ministry's decision to downgrade 21 hospitals in the ...

Prabowo-Sandi pair thanks and urges Indonesians to give them mandate

Vice presidential candidate number 02 Sandiaga Uno thanked the Indonesian people for supporting them, and urged them to ...

House passes bill on migrant workers` protection into law

The Indonesian House of Representatives (DPR) passed a bill on the protection of Indonesian migrant workers into a law ...

Health challenge in 72nd year of independence

The challenge of the health sector in the 72nd year of the independence of the Republic of Indonesia is to unite and ...