The Integration Traditional Medicine Practice at National Health Insurance in Indonesia

Riza Alifianto Kurniawan, Sapta Aprilianto

2018

Abstract

Health service has become the most demanded service when it provided simultaneously by the state. Based on National Social Guarantee Regulation, issued in 2008, force Government to provide and establish health insurance for Indonesian. National health insurance system was established since then and require more medical practitioners to participate not only medical doctors, nurse, but also traditional medical practitioners. One of the obstacles is certification for competency of traditional medical practitioners. The certification is a recognition by the society to show a trust for traditional medical practitioner for its competency. Furthermore, traditional medicine has been regulated in Health Act, Law No 35 Year 2009. The Act also followed by the Government Regulation which specifically regulated Traditional Medicine. Based on Health Act and Traditional Medicine Regulation, traditional medicine is recognised and has equal rights to develop the practice and the knowledge for providing its service to the society. This paper objective is to find out the problems and obstacles for traditional medical practitioners serving its knowledge to the society. Thus, every obstacles and issues which have been found, will be followed by proposing program or policy to remove the obstacle and improve traditional medicine practitioners to be accepted to practice or giving service at social health insurance.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Kurniawan R. and Aprilianto S. (2018). The Integration Traditional Medicine Practice at National Health Insurance in Indonesia.In Proceedings of the International Law Conference - Volume 1: i-NLAC, ISBN 978-989-758-482-4, pages 13-17. DOI: 10.5220/0010049900130017

in Bibtex Style

@conference{i-nlac18,
author={Riza Alifianto Kurniawan and Sapta Aprilianto},
title={The Integration Traditional Medicine Practice at National Health Insurance in Indonesia},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Law Conference - Volume 1: i-NLAC,},
year={2018},
pages={13-17},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010049900130017},
isbn={978-989-758-482-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the International Law Conference - Volume 1: i-NLAC,
TI - The Integration Traditional Medicine Practice at National Health Insurance in Indonesia
SN - 978-989-758-482-4
AU - Kurniawan R.
AU - Aprilianto S.
PY - 2018
SP - 13
EP - 17
DO - 10.5220/0010049900130017