Healthcare In Indonesia

Healthcare is an important part of anyone’s life in the world. It is needed by everyone, at a point of their lives. Healthcare services in Indonesia are mostly sub par. The healthcare service in Indonesia has a very significant difference between the Commercial Hospitals and the Public Hospitals. There is a big difference in the services, price and the medical equipment used. Commercial hospitals are way more equipped, provide more services and are way more expensive. They are also in more strategic locations. Even though they provide all these services, they are far out of the price range for the middle to low class citizens. Indonesia uses only 6.2% of it’s yearly expenditure for healthcare and only some of these public hospitals provides

An increase in tax will not please the citizens at first, but strategically it is a long-term plan, as it can almost ensure free healthcare. Indonesia’s tax system is based on the citizen’s income, for example a person with an income of 15 Million Indonesian Rupiah’s will pay 5% of his wages as taxes. It is pretty obvious that 750.000 IDR will not cover road pavings, street light electricity’s and infrastructural development, also adding in free healthcare. If the people with a monthly income over 250 million Indonesian Rupiah will pay more taxes compared to their designated 25-30%, the taxation could be subsidized into providing free healthcare. All the tax money is calculated in the Anggaran Pendapatan dan Belanja Negara or the Budget Income and Expenses of the country. In the recent years, the APBN’s money are mostly used for infrastructural development and with corruption everywhere, there is little proof of any infrastructural development in Indonesia. If the APBN would use more of their money on things that would be evident to the citizens such as healthcare, this could lead to better public hospitals and hopefully also free basic

Here in Indonesia, the education system does not stir the student’s dreams to make them strive for their work, and it is evident by the number of truant students everyday. If the education system could stir the student’s dreams and make them strive and work hard to achieve it, there could be a rise in the number of doctors in Indonesia. The education system should not make the student feel insecure or stupid compared to their classmates, and class rankings should be eliminated as it adds to the insecurity level of the less intelligent pupils. Once the less intelligent pupils feel insecure of their level of knowledge, truancy seems like the best option. Once truancy happens, their grades will drastically drop as they will skip school and not strive to reach their dreams. Indonesia’s education system should also keep the students in a positive mental state and not affect the student to think that money is everything, this leads to my third and final