Cak Imin: BPJS Bleaching Opens, Participants Get Ready For Re-Registration

Coordinating Minister for Community Empowerment, Muhaimin Iskandar (Cak Imin), said the government would open up opportunities for bleaching BPJS Health arrears by the end of this year.

Muhaimin, after attending a limited meeting at the Presidential Palace complex, Jakarta, asked participants who had arrears to prepare to re-register so that BPJS Kesehatan membership could be reactivated after the bleaching program was implemented.

"The debt reduction of BPJS Health participants will soon be carried out later this year," he said as quoted by ANTARA, Tuesday, November 4.

He said participants with due arrears would be given the opportunity to re-register so that their membership status would be active again.

Muhaimin explained, through the re-registration, participants who were previously inactive due to in Arrears could return to obtaining BPJS Health services without having to pay off arrears first.

"To BPJS Kesehatan participants to get ready for re-registration, and the re-registration made the participants active again," said Muhaimin.

When asked about the mechanism for handling duer arrears, Muhaimin stated that the burden would be handled by BPJS Kesehatan and had been integrated in government financing.

"Yes, the responsibility will automatically be taken over by BPJS Kesehatan. It will be announced soon," he said.

He added that this program was part of the government's steps to ease the burden on underprivileged people who had difficulty paying dues.