JAKARTA - Head of the Communication and Public Service Bureau of the Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) Siti Nadia Tarmizi said 85 percent of the policies contained in the Draft Health Law (RUU) were directly related to improving health workers.
"If you look at the contents of the Health Bill which is currently being discussed by the DPR and the government, it is actually around 85 percent directly related to the improvement of health workers," said Siti Nadia as quoted by ANTARA, Monday, June 5.
While the remaining 15 percent of the contents of the Health Bill are used as material for protests and polemics by professional organizations. "It is as if this bill contains only about the authority of professional organizations and not about the interests of the wider community," he said.
Nadia said the issues raised in the series of actions against the Health Bill regulate the resources of health workers, which include the authority to issue permits for practices, specialist medical education, legal protection for health workers, and the existence of professional organizations.
This statement was made by Nadia in response to the peaceful demonstration of medical and health personnel demanding the termination of the discussion of the Omnibus Law Health Bill at the DPR building, Senayan, Jakarta.
The action involved the Indonesian Doctors Association (IDI), the Indonesian Dental Association (PDGI), the Indonesian National Nurses Association (PPNI), the Indonesian Midwives Association (IBI), the Indonesian Pharmacists Association (IAI), and many forums for health workers and the health community.
Chairman of the Indonesian Pharmacists Association Noffendri Roestam highlighted the plan to implement multi-organization medical professions in Indonesia, because it risks setting up double standards in enforcement of professional ethics that can harm patients.
"Even though there are also other professions in the law, it is also mentioned that the single organization, such as notaries, accountants, architects, psychologists. The same should apply to the medical profession and health workers because it involves standards for human safety and life," he said.
Responding to this, Nadia said the government suggested that the Health Bill not regulate the formation of professional organizations. The 1945 Constitution Article 28E paragraph 3 guarantees that everyone has the right to freedom of association, assembly, and opinion.
"Therefore, the establishment of professional organizations as non-governmental community institutions is returned to their respective professions and has a role to help the government in providing professional development," he said.
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