74th Anniversary, IDI Strives To Increase Public Trust In Indonesian Doctors

General Chairperson of the Indonesian Doctors Association (IDI) Dr. dr. M. Adib Khumaidi Sp.OT (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - The Executive Board of the Indonesian Doctors Association (IDI) seeks to increase public trust in Indonesian doctors through a series of activities to commemorate the 74th anniversary of the doctor's association.

"How can the Indonesian people continue to believe and continue to be served by their health by doctors from Indonesia themselves, and that is what became one homework for us," said the General Chairperson of the IDI Executive Board Dr. dr. M. Adib Khumaidi Sp.OT at the IDI anniversary event in Jakarta, Thursday.

Adib said that in this case IDI declared the Indonesian people's movement to love Indonesian doctors and rebuild IDI's image as an institution that serves the community based on knowledge.

He also conveyed the importance of increasing the ability of doctors to communicate with patients in an effort to increase public trust in doctors.

Adib said that the ease of accessing information via the internet in the digital era presents new challenges for doctors.

"We are dealing with the era of health information and easy to access so that people can easily be educated indirectly through social media, and the most important thing now is how we can build educational acceleration to the public," he explained.

He said that the public needs to get education about sources of competent and trusted health information in order to avoid misinformation and misleading.

Doctors and health workers, he continued, are also expected to improve communication with patients and convey health information to the public.

He said that increasing public health knowledge would encourage increased public trust in doctors.

Therefore, according to him, health education must be given to school students, families, and government officials.