Overlap, 10 Existing Health Laws Will Be Merged Into One

Indonesian Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - Indonesian Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin said as many as 10 existing Health Laws would be merged into one in the Draft Health Law (RUU). This is because the Health Law has overlapped and is less accommodative.

"The proposal from the DPR, nine existing laws are combined into one. The proposal from the government will be added by one to ten laws," said Budi Gunadi Sadikin at a Working Meeting related to the Health Bill with Commission IX of the DPR RI at the DPR RI Building which was followed online in Jakarta, Wednesday, April 5.

The list of laws that will be merged into one bill with several substance changes including Law Number 4 of 1984 related to Infectious Disease Outbreaks, Law Number 36 of 2009 concerning Health, Law Number 44 of 2009 concerning Hospitals.

Law Number 18 of 2014 concerning Mental Health, Law Number 6 of 2018 concerning Health Quarantine, Law Number 29 of 2004 concerning Medical Practices, Law Number 36 of 2014 concerning Health Workers, Law Number 38 of 2014 concerning Nursing, Law Number 4 of 2019 concerning Midwives, and Law Number 20 of 2013 concerning Medical Education.

"The proposal of the DPR is that there are four laws that will be changed. Our proposal is only two laws that have been changed," he said.

The laws proposed by the DPR are Law Number 20 of 2004 concerning the National Social Security System (SJSN), Law Number 24 of 2011 concerning BPJS, Law Number 20 of 2003 concerning the National Education System, and Law Number 12 of 2012 concerning Higher Education.

The Ministry of Health has so far summarized 3,020 problem inventory lists (DIM) out of a total of 478 articles in the Health Bill.

"A total of 1,037 DIMs are fixed in nature, in the sense of confirming that from the DPR, 399 there were editorial changes and 1,584 changes in substance. Apart from body trunks, we have an explanation that there are 1,488 DIMs, 609 permanent, 14 DIMs of editorial change, and 865 substance changes," he said.