103 Pilot Points For Village Pharmacies Ready To Operate Throughout Indonesia

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) strengthens communication with village heads throughout the country to ensure the realization of the acceleration of the integration of village pharmacies and clinics into the Red and White Village Cooperative (Kopdes).

"So, we will intensify communication with the existing village heads," said Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin in a statement received in Jakarta, Thursday, July 17.

He conveyed that the initiative to integrate pharmacies and village clinics into the Kopdes was a direct implementation of Presidential Instruction Number 9 of 2025 concerning the Acceleration of the Establishment of the Red and White Cooperative as a pillar of food and health self-sufficiency.

The presence of health services at the village level, he said, is expected to strengthen community resilience as well as become a strategic step towards a healthy, independent, and competitive village.

Currently, the Ministry of Health together with strategic partners are accelerating the construction of village pharmacy infrastructure at 103 pilot points for the Red and White Kopdes throughout Indonesia.

According to Minister of Health Budi, the readiness of village pharmacy infrastructure in the Red and White Village Cooperative program shows promising progress. The majority of the 103 points, he said, had entered the final stages of operational preparation. He conveyed support from across ministries, such as the Ministry of Defense, which helped strengthen the success of the program.

"The Ministry of Defense has also contributed through strategic medicine grants to support basic health services at the village level," he said.

It is known, the types of drugs distributed through village pharmacies include 11,537,180 tablets of paracetamol, 4,716,981 kaplets of mephenamate acid, and 1,200,000 cefadroxyl capsules.

The drugs include antipirritis, anti-inflammatory, and antibiotics as part of efforts to ensure access to basic pharmaceutical services that are evenly distributed in all corners of the village.

Through collaboration between the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Defense, the pharmaceutical industry, and village cooperatives, the Minister of Health hopes that the program will be able to answer the challenges of the gap in access to health services while strengthening the service system to the most remote areas.