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The military will begin manufacturing medicines for public distribution under a new agreement, officials said on Tuesday, in the latest expansion of the armed forces' role in civilian affairs since President Prabowo Subianto took office.
The Defense Ministry is planning to utilize medical laboratories owned by the Indonesian Military’s (TNI) three branches to produce drugs and distribute them through the Red and White Village Cooperatives Program in a bid to lower medicine prices and improve distribution.
The Health Ministry plans to establish a task force to push for the assessment of innovative medicines and vaccines as Indonesia becomes the country with lowest usage of new medicines for untreatable or difficult-to-treat conditions in the Asia-Pacific.
United States scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun won the Nobel Prize in Medicine on Monday for their discovery of microRNA and its role in how genes are regulated, solving a decades-old mystery, the Nobel Assembly at Sweden's Karolinska Institute said.
Straight out of the blocks, the new BPOM head has announced a presidential initiative to lower medicine prices in Indonesia, which he said were up to four times higher than those in neighboring countries.
