Falling Through The Cracks

[Vanhelsing]

Millions of Indonesians are unable to access the new Jaminan Kesehatan Nasional (National Health Insurance) or JKN simply because they are unable to register. By relying on the inflexible civil registration system that requires citizens to register through their family, the JKN often fails to cover those who need it the most, solely as a result of poor administration.

..... Those who did not fit into this state constructed family, often called ‘wild citizens’, were forcibly put in institutions for rehabilitation. The JKN and the civil registration system are based on a structure inherited from this system.

If we believe that every Indonesian has a right to dignified care, we must challenge the ideologies underpinning citizenship in Indonesia. To achieve its goal of providing truly universal and inclusive health coverage, the JKN must be adjusted to accommodate the diversity of individual and familial arrangements that exist in practice.

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