The second semester of 2023 continued to be an active year in the Indonesian legal landscape. After revamping the financial landscape, the Indonesian government moved on to tackle issues in the nation’s healthcare sector by issuing the so-called “Omnibus Health Law” (Law No. 17 of 2023 on Health) in August 2023.
The urgency for the transformation of Indonesia’s healthcare system was underscored by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, which unveiled the vulnerabilities and inadequacies of the healthcare systems globally, including in Indonesia. With healthcare often being overlooked in favour of other, more pressing reforms, the pandemic highlighted the weakness in Indonesia’s healthcare system, for example, the lack of public health facilities, shortage of health workforce, and overlapping of laws and regulations.
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