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BPJS Kesehatan rates ‘might’ rise in 2026, health minister says
BPJS Kesehatan members might need to brace for a rate hike next year, the health minister has said, though the actual figure is yet to be determined.
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A clerk attends to a national health insurance subscriber on May 14, 2024, at the South Jakarta office of the Health Care and Social Security Agency (BPJS Kesehatan. (Antara/Akbar Nugroho Gumay)
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he health minister has announced a potential increase in membership fees of the Health Care and Social Security Agency (BPJS Kesehatan), which runs the national health insurance (JKN), saying the idea had been communicated to President Prabowo Subianto and is pending further discussion with Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati.
“According to our calculations with the finance minister, the 2025 rates [for BPJS Kesehatan] are settled. In 2026, there might be a rate adjustment,” Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin said in Jakarta on Wednesday, as quoted by Kompas.com.
He noted however that the two ministries had yet to conduct detailed calculations in coordination with BPJS Kesehatan, so the figure for the rate hike was undetermined at this stage.
Budi said the planned hike had nothing to do with the switch to a single-tier care system that is currently under evaluation.
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The government is set to replace the existing three classes in the JKN with the standard inpatient class (KRIS) system, and all hospitals are to switch to KRIS by July 1.
The plan to scrap the JKN’s three-class system has been in the pipeline for years, with an aim to cut costs and promote equitability under the Indonesia’s universal health care.
