Inp.polri.go.id – Jakarta. The Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin is trying to make the specialist medical education free of charge in Indonesia. The step is to boost the number of specialists in Indonesia which are still few.

Budi explains that one of the causes why medical specialists in Indonesia are still few is because of the expensive cost of education. In light of the issue, the government is trying to press the education cost for medical specialists to be free of charge.

“We hope Indonesia would follow the example of other countries in education for medical specialists, which is free of charge,” said Budi on Monday (5/6/2024).

At the same occasion, President Joko Widodo has highlighted the small number of medical specialists in Indonesia.

According to the World Health Organization data in 2019, the ratio of medical specialists in Indonesia is only 0.47 per 1,000 people. Jokowi says that Indonesia still needs 29,000 medical specialists to meet its ideal number, while as of now, Indonesia could only produce 2,700 of them per year.

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