Utilization Of JKN-KIS Increases Significantly

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JAKARTA - Since the launch of President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) in November 2014, public trust in utilizing the National Health Insurance-Healthy Indonesian Cards (JKN-KIS) has been quite high. "This shows that the public really feels the benefits," said the Main Expert of the Presidential Staff Office (KSP) Abraham Wirotomo as quoted by ANTARA, Wednesday, June 28. Abaraham's statement was in response to the results of the Kompas Research and Development Section poll in mid-June 2023 which stated that of the 377 respondents, 71.6 percent of respondents who took part in the JKN-KIS participation used it for treatment, with details of 24.1 percent using it regularly and 47.5 percent using it several times. BPJS Health data shows that of the 6 million KIS-PBI participants in 2014, the number of visits reached 15 million. This number increased in 2022, of which 48 million KIS-PBI participants, there were 236 million visits. "Of course the government has a record that there are still services that must be improved. But at this time there are so many people who enjoy static health services," said Abraham. In addition to the health aspect, he said, the KIS program has also succeeded in reducing poverty. University of Indonesia studies show that in 2019 the KIS program is estimated to have succeeded in saving 8.1 million people from poverty. "Because if they are without free health services, they will fall into poverty due to high health costs, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic," he said. According to him, to ensure that the JKN-KIS program can be sustainable, KSP together with the Coordinating Ministry for Human Development and Culture, and the Cabinet Secretariat oversee the implementation of Presidential Instruction No. 1/2022 concerning Optimizing the Implementation of JKN. One strategy for JKN-KIS to be sustainable is to increase the number of free health screenings from 2.23 million in 2021 to 15.5 million in 2022, up seven times. "With free health screening, it is hoped that people will realize the level of their body health risk so that their lifestyle can become healthier," he said.