The Panel Of Professors Of Medicine Urges The Government To Review Health Policy

The Indonesian Professors of Medicine (MGBKI) Council (Photo: Doc. MGBKI)

JAKARTA - The Indonesian Professors of Medicine (MGBKI) expressed their deep concern about Indonesia's demonstrations in various regions. They highlight people's concerns that are not responded to, including in the health sector.

MGBKI criticized a number of policies of the Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) which were later implemented without hearing input from academics, medical education experts, and practitioners.

The policies include the takeover of the medical education curriculum by the government from the professional Kolegium, the planned mass production of specialist doctors, to university and hospital-based education dualism.

According to MGBKI, this policy step has the potential to weaken the independence of medical science, reduce the quality of graduates, and trigger joint unrest among doctors.

The policies imposed by the Ministry of Health have even caused collective unrest among doctors, which are also our concerns as educators at the medical faculty," MGBKI's statement to the government, in an official statement, on Tuesday, September 2, 2025.

Thus, MGBKI urges the government to immediately evaluate policies that cause polemics. There are several main points that are conveyed, as follows:

- The Government's Kolegium dominance must be stopped and returned to the correct supervisor by providing professional Kolegium work facilitation.- The doctor's mass production plan and specialists must answer the issue of distribution and quality of graduates.- Improve the implementation of the dual education of specialists based on universities and hospitals, the quality of graduates is evenly distributed with mutual respect.- Stop the abuse power in managing expert medical personnel and recover the transfer of personnel with the agenda of showing power and anti-critical attitudes.- Ensuring the presence of foreign specialist doctors hospitals is widely intended for the people, and following the appropriate administration.- Organizing National Health Insurance Financing (JKN) to be sustainable and transparent.

MGBKI emphasized that the evaluation must be carried out for a better transformation of Indonesia's health system. Without any changes, it will endanger not only the medical profession, but also the safety of the patients.

"We also remind the government that without a good arrangement, the policies made by the Ministry of Health at this time will threaten the quality of medical education, professional dignity, and the most dangerous thing is patient safety," said the Secretary of MGBKI, Prof. Dr. Dr. Theddeus Prasetyono, SpBP-RE(K).