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Greater Jakarta: Contract workers to get health insurance
The Jakarta administration is registering its contract workers and cleaners with the Health Care and Social Security Agency (BPJS Kesehatan) to provide them with health and life insurance coverage
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he Jakarta administration is registering its contract workers and cleaners with the Health Care and Social Security Agency (BPJS Kesehatan) to provide them with health and life insurance coverage.
Jakarta Governor Basuki 'Ahok' Tjahaja Purnama said the administration would soon provide 40,000 contract workers and cleaners with health insurance policies in addition to their 13 monthly salaries, as it had signed an agreement with BPJS several days ago.
He said the plan was to allow the workers to receive health care services as well as to provide their families with compensation after they passed away.
'If they pass away, the families can receive a settlement at Rp 136 million [US$10,197] to Rp 137 million,' Ahok said on Tuesday, adding that the workers to receive health insurance included all contract workers, including contract cleaners and public order officers.
He further said that the administration was using its own budget funds to pay for the workers' insurance premiums of around Rp 23,000 per person.
He said in the future the administration would require all workers in Jakarta, both in the formal and informal sector, to have health and life insurance.
