The Constitutional Court Asks The Minister Of Health And IDI To Consult On Conflicts

JAKARTA - The conflict between the Indonesian Minister of Health, Budi Gunadi Sadikin, and the doctors has not found a way out.

Member of the Indonesian Doctors Association (IDI) previously sued the omnibus law of Law Number 17 of 2023 concerning Health to the Constitutional Court, saying that the government intervened in the independence of medical organizations.

Regarding this conflict, the Constitutional Justice, Saldi Isra again emphasized that the Executive Board of the Indonesian Doctors Association (PB IDI) and Budi Gunadi should resolve it by deliberation.

This was conveyed by Saldi Isra during the follow-up trial of the judicial review of Law Number 17 of 2023 concerning Health with case number 182/PUU-XXII/2024 which was held at the Constitutional Court Building, Central Jakarta, Monday, July 7, 2025.

Before we decide, we order everyone to meet to talk from heart to heart. Later, please develop together, what are we going to do with this? " said Saldi Isra, quoted from the Constitutional Court's YouTube, on Tuesday, July 8, 2025.

All parties in question other than PD IDI and the Minister of Health, including the medical faculty who were also involved in the case. Saldi admitted that he did not want this case to become like a bamboo-split policy that raised one party, and brought down other parties.

Saldi Isra also emphasized that in the field of medicine the role of the state is still needed. Therefore, deliberation is needed to agree on the extent to which the state can play a role in this field in the future, which is of course for the common interest.

"There is room for it (discussions), we the Court can decide on an interim decision. Who knows there is a way out that can be accepted by all parties, the role of the country is how much we need it," he explained.

"Because it is impossible for the role of the state to be eliminated, there must still be a role, but how far can the entry be that must be discussed together," concluded Saldi Isra.

Meanwhile, the main issue questions the norms related to accountability, role, and consile membership. Then the role of collegium, the panel of professional discipline enforcement, the temporary deactivation of Registration Certificates (STR).

The petitioners who sued said that there was direct intervention and control from the health minister on collegium, the authority of the health minister in receiving a review of the decision of the professional disciplinary assembly, and the transfer of professional authority to the management of the fulfillment of professional credit units (SKP) for medical personnel by the minister.