JAKARTA - The Minister of Social Affairs (Mensos) Saifullah Yusuf revealed that the government is studying the addition of the allocation of BPJS Health participants segmenting National Health Insurance Premium Assistance Recipients (PBI JKN) to reach 120 million people.
"That is one of the schemes we have prepared as well. There is discussion, but not comprehensively yet," said Mensosdilansir ANTARA, Wednesday, April 22.
The Minister of Social Affairs explained that currently the available PBIJKN quota only covers 96.8 million people, while data on Desil 1-4 in the National Socio-Economic Single Data (DTSEN) from the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) shows a figure of around 120 million people who are eligible for assistance.
"Therefore, there is a kind of idea to increase the allocation. Now there are 96.8 million people. If there is an addition, of course we can reach the entire Desil 1, 2, 3, and 4," said the Minister of Social Affairs, Saifullah Yusuf.
The addition of the quota, he said, is aimed at minimizing the risk of exclusion errors so that poor people and vulnerable poor people who fall into the Desil 1-4 DTSEN category can be accommodated in the national health insurance scheme.
The error of exclusion or exclusion error is a term used in statistics to describe the condition when the group that is entitled is not protected.
This is as discussed in a working meeting attended by the Minister of Social Affairs, the Minister of Health (Menkes), the Head of BPS, and the leadership of BPJS Kesehatan together with Commission IX of the DPR RI at the Parliament Building in Jakarta on April 15, 2026.
However, the Minister of Social Affairs emphasized that the discussion on the addition of this quota is still in the initial stage of discussion and has not been carried out comprehensively.
"So it's just an idea, then later Insya Allahakan we will follow up with the Ministry of Health, with BPJS Kesehatan, with BPS, in the near future," said the Minister of Social Affairs, Saifullah Yusuf.
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