JAKARTA - Indonesia plans to build international standard hospitals in Jakarta, Denpasar in Bali and Medan in a pilot project to reduce the number Indonesians traveling overseas to seek medical treatment, a senior minister has said.
"Some Indonesians prefer going to Penang and Singapore on consideration that the medical service there is relatively affordable and they get well faster," according to Mr Luhut's Instagram post. If these sums were spent domestically instead, jobs would be created and foreign investment would pump in money into healthcare services, Mr Luhut said.
To entice Indonesians to seek treatment in the country, the government is looking at allowing foreign specialists to practice in local hospitals. Asked about this regulation by The Straits Times by phone Saturday night, Mr Luhut said that bureaucracy for a foreign doctor to get a permit to practice medicine in Indonesia needs to be simplified.He said the government would be very selective that only foreign doctors with very high expertise are allowed and local doctors would benefit from the transfer of knowledge.
Prof Frans, a medical doctor who spent 20 years of his career in Germany, sees the government plan's as feasible, saying Indonesian medical tourists also go to Australia, Germany and the United States, among others.
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