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A doctor washes in a makeshift shower room during a decontamination simulation at the Duri Pulo community health center (puskesmas) in Central Jakarta on Oct. 6. (JP/Wendra Ajistyatama)
T
he government is under pressure to relieve a budget bottleneck that has limited the distribution of health funds and to ensure a more prompt disbursement of next year’s health budget as observers express concern about continued delays.
Center of Reform on Economics (CORE) director Mohammad Faisal called on the state to speed up health spending under the national economic recovery (PEN) program, as he said ensuring public health was essential for a quick economic recovery.
“We haven’t completed our biggest task yet,” he told The Jakarta Post recently.
As of Sept. 28, the government had spent only about a quarter of its PEN health budget, said Budi Gunadi Sadikin, head of the economic recovery task force, on Sept. 30.
The figure was much lower than that of social aid spending, which saw nearly three quarters of its budget realized by the same time.
