Overcoming The Doctor's Crisis, Prabowo Targets To Open 30 New Faculty Of Medicine

President Prabowo Subianto inaugurated the Integrated Service Building and the National Institute of Neuroscience at the National Brain Center Hospital (PON Hospital) Prof. Dr. dr. Mahar Mardjono in Jakarta, Tuesday (26/8/2025). (Presidential Media Team Prabowo)

JAKARTA - President Prabowo Subianto is targeting to open 30 new medical faculties in various campuses in Indonesia to meet the number of general practitioners who are currently considered insufficient.

In front of doctors and health workers during the inauguration of the Integrated Service Building and the National Institute of Neuroscience at the National Brain Center Hospital (RS PON) Prof. Dr. dr. Mahar Mardjono in Jakarta, Tuesday 26 August, the President also conveyed the government's target to immediately open 148 special study programs (prodi) for specialist and subspecial education by 2025.

"This year, we will also open 148 study programs in 57 medical faculties, and also these 125 programs are for specialists, and the rest, 23 are subspecialist programs. I want to add medical faculty. We have to add more now, the number of students and the number of graduates," said President Prabowo.

"My target is that there will be 30 new medical faculties. God willing, to pursue the 70,000 specialists and general practitioners, the shortage is 140,000," said Prabowo.

Prabowo continued that if steps to meet the shortage of general practitioners and specialist doctors, the subspecialist doctor would immediately be carried out, then Indonesia would have to wait for another 35 years until it finally had enough number of doctors to treat more than 280 million people.

Therefore, Prabowo emphasized that the government must work hard to overcome the problem of the shortage of doctors, specialist doctors, and subspecialist doctors.

"The lack of paramedics is happening all over the world. We are fighting, Europe, America, lack of doctors, lack of medical personnel. So, we have to work hard," said President Prabowo.

The President stressed that he must use all his abilities to achieve his goals, namely the best health, his services for all Indonesian people, because health and education are part of welfare.

"Welfare is the right of all Indonesian people, including the poorest, and those who live in the most remote areas are entitled to the best health services," said President Prabowo.

The President also emphasized that education and health are a manifestation of true democracy, because countries that have succeeded in upholding democracy are countries that can provide education with the best service, and the best health services.

"Education and health are democratization. Those are brothers and sisters. Why is the government, whoever governs, anyone is obliged to fight for the best education, and the best health," said the President.

"Health and good education can only be realized if there is no corruption, if there is no manipulation, if there is no leakage. Every rupiah that (is intended) buys the best tools in the world must reach the people, and no one should feel (more) above (from) other groups, "continued the President.