Hartopo Regent Brings Good News, Several Companies In Kudus Are Ready To Take Over JKN PBI Status Workers

National Health Insurance (JKN)/ANTARA

KUDUS - Several companies in Kudus Regency, Central Java, are willing to take over workers with the status of JKN participants who receive contribution assistance (PBI) to become JKN participants who receive wages. With this status, the participant's contributions will be automatically borne by the company.

"Large-scale companies in Kudus have already expressed their ability because previously there were many workers whose membership status turned out to be JKN PBI, so it was close to being completed," said Kudus Regent Hartopo in Kudus as quoted by Antara, Wednesday, July 5.

Meanwhile, other companies are still being approached to follow in the footsteps of companies that have expressed their willingness to take over the payment of their workers' JKN contributions. When you switch to a JKN participant for Wage Recipient Workers (PPU), it will no longer be borne by the Kudus APBD because later part of the contribution will be borne by the workers and the company.

This, he said, could certainly reduce the burden on the APBD because the available allocations could be used by people who were truly underprivileged and did not have permanent jobs.

He also instructed his staff to re-verify the data of workers with JKN PBI status, because it is possible that there will be follow-up from other companies.

The number of residents who become JKN PBI participants is estimated to reach 60,000. When a number of workers who previously had JKN PBI status were transferred to JKN wage recipients, the burden on the regional budget could be reduced.

"The number of Kudus residents registered as PBI APBN is synchronized between BPJS Health data with data at the Kudus Social Service. It must be maximized because there is a quota from the center at least up to 20,000, otherwise other regions can take it," he said.

With the support of the private sector willing to take over their workers from PBI JKN status to JKN recipients of wages, he hopes, Kudus Regency can achieve the Universal Health Coverage (UHC) target or comprehensive health coverage for the population in Kudus because currently it reaches 95 percent of the total population. while the UHC target is 98 percent.

The problem has not been resolved, because the workers objected to being transferred to JKN PPU because later they would be subject to a salary deduction for payment of JKN contributions. Meanwhile, with the JKN PBI status every month there is no cost at all because it is borne entirely by the government.

The Kudus Regency Government in the 2022 APBD budgeted a public health insurance program of Rp. 27.51 billion which came from the excise and tobacco product sharing fund (DBHCHT).