Ministry Of Health Asks Foreign Medical Device Manufacturers To Open Factory In Indonesia

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JAKARTA - The Director General of Health Services at the Ministry of Health, Prof. Abdul Kadir, asked foreign medical device manufacturers to build factories in Indonesia.

"Like it or not, if we want to accelerate, there is no other way except we import technology from outside. What does this mean, we call all vendors or foreign factories inside to build factories here," said Kadir in the RDP Commission IX of the House of Representatives. with the Ministry of Health quoted by Antara, Monday, September 27.

According to him, it is an alternative way that can be taken so that Indonesia can produce its own medical devices considering the lack of research and development in the health sector in the country.

However, it is difficult to expect that all knowledge and technology from these foreign companies can be learned by Indonesian human resources.

"The question is whether they want 100 percent to transfer technology, for example, transfer of knowledge. Are we like Japanese people able to steal that person's knowledge, we use it," he said.

The current domestic health industry, according to him, has not been able to produce high-tech medical devices.

"We have not been able to produce domestic medical devices that are included in the high-tech group, such as MRI, CT scan," he said.

The new domestic health industry is able to produce low-tech medical devices. Even the components of these medical devices still come from abroad.

"We do more assembling, changing casings, changing brands, it is considered domestic production. The TKDN is 40 percent," he said.