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Comments: Are physicians ready for the AEC?

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The Jakarta Post
Sat, December 20, 2014

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Comments: Are physicians ready for the AEC?

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Next year, Indonesia will face the realization of the Asian Economic Community (AEC) policy. More and more professionals, including foreign doctors, will come to Indonesia and have practices here. The AEC will remove substantially all boundaries on trade so that ASEAN will become a region with liberated movement of services, investment and skilled labor, including in the healthcare sector.

Before the AEC policy, many Indonesians went to other countries to seek better healthcare services. According to the Health Ministry, in 2014 more than 600,000 Indonesians went abroad to seek medical assistance, especially to Singapore and Malaysia. (By Tommy Dharmawan, Jakarta)


Your comments:

I agree with this policy, as it will motivate Indonesian physicians to improve so as to compete with other foreign physicians inthe global market and the upcoming AEC.

Indonesian physicians have to change their attitudes and develop their skills in medical knowledge to attract Indonesian people to use Indonesian physicians'€™ services.

According to this article, the AEC also give some advantages to Indonesia, such as the facilitation of medical professionals'€™ mobility within ASEAN, enhanced exchange of information and expertise on standards and qualifications, promotion of adoption of best practices for professional medical services and increased opportunities for building capacity and training medical practitioners.

Insan Muplihah

Why would people prefer to be treated by foreign doctors? What have they got that Indonesian doctors haven'€™t? And more importantly, what are we going to do about it? Come on! Let'€™s look in the mirror!

Deedee S

Of course they are ready. They'€™ll be readier than ever if the AEC could provide the same benefit for every prescription they write.

Lindon Jonson

Contrary to the wild claims made by the opinionated author of this story, you don'€™t have to worry about ASEAN foreign doctors treating Indonesian patients because it'€™s not allowed under the ASEAN Framework Agreement in Services. However, ASEAN citizens owning and managing clinics in Indonesia is allowed.

Countries conduct international trade in goods and services. There are four modes of supplying a service to a customer: cross border supply, consumption abroad, commercial presence and movement of natural persons.

Often people make a fuss about what ASEAN is or is not doing but they haven'€™t read exactly what ASEAN'€™s objectives are or have no idea what ASEAN has agreed to. Newspapers and politicians are really guilty of this.

While what you are saying may be true, pointing the finger at ASEAN for something they are not even doing has very little impact.

Mark Hefner

The best doctors from advanced countries need to be lured with money. Most likely these doctors will only end up in major '€œinternational'€ (read: expensive) hospitals in big cities. How does this help to increase health care quality for average Indonesians with medium to low income?

Rio Rivai

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