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Nearly 270 million Indonesians now covered by national health insurance
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An employee of the Health Care and Social Security Agency (BPJS Kesehatan) serves a customer at the agency’s branch office in Jakarta on July 1, 2020. (JP/Dhoni Setiawan)
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oinciding with World Health Day, the Healthcare and Social Security Agency (BPJS Kesehatan) has announced that close to 270 million people, nearly the country’s whole population, have been enrolled in the National Health Insurance (JKN) program.
BPJS Kesehatan recorded that as of Sunday, some 269 million people, or 96.7 percent of the total population, were JKN policyholders.
“The state has made BPJS Kesehatan the operator of the JKN program to provide health insurance to people so that they can have certainty and are not burdened with medical expenses when they are sick," Rizzky said on Sunday, as quoted by Antara.
Rizzky said the JKN program had made healthcare more accessible to the public and had prevented less fortunate Indonesians from being financially burdened by their hospital bills.
BPJS Kesehatan covered a daily average of 1.6 million items of medical expenses for JKN policyholders last year.
A 2020 study by the Institute for Economic and Social Research at the University of Indonesia’s Faculty of Economics and Business found that the JKN program had prevented 8.1 million people from falling into poverty and an additional 1.6 million poor people from falling into severe poverty in 2019.
In commemoration of World Health Day on Sunday, BPJS Kesehatan said it hoped Indonesia could make strides in health infrastructure and the number of doctors working in the country.
