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View all search resultsThousands regain JKN subsidized coverage, social minister says
Officials will launch ground verification to ensure whether 2,000 beneficiaries that switch to the self-funded scheme can still pay for the premiums by themselves or require subsidies from the state.
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A patient files a request on Feb. 13, 2026, to reactivate his subsidized national health insurance (JKN) policy at the Bekasi Municipality Social Affairs Agency in Bekasi, West Java. (Antara/Darryl Ramadhan)
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ore than 40,000 recipients of national health insurance’s (JKN) subsidized scheme had their memberships reactivated, after their benefits were revoked in early February following a welfare data update.
Social Affairs Minister Saifullah Yusuf said around 2,000 of 40,000 beneficiaries switched to self-funded premiums, indicating they no longer required state subsidies.
“We continue to launch ground checks to ensure whether these beneficiaries can continue to receive their self-funded benefits or will later switch to PBI again,” Saifullah said on Monday, as quoted by Kompas.com.
He added the Social Affairs Ministry and Statistics Indonesia (BPS) will implement monthly verification on affected participants to “hopefully make [the] data more accurate” and prevent future misidentification.
Separately, Office of the Coordinating Social Empowerment Minister Muhaimin Iskandar said policies for 106,000 beneficiaries with diagnosed severe health issues had been automatically reactivated to make sure they could still access treatment for their condition.
The move followed the mass revocation of PBI recipients as of Feb. 1 following an update to the Single National Social and Economic Data (DTSEN), a unified social assistance database used by the Health Care and Social Security Agency (BPJS Kesehatan) to determine a person’s eligibility for the subsidized scheme.
