Policy Gaps and Implementation Issues

Common gaps and issues:

  • • Almost no protection for non-poor workers in the informal sector
  • • High evasion in the formal sector
  • • Data limitations and targeting issues
  • • Coordination issues and overlaps among programmes

 

1. Gaps and issues in the provision of health care for the whole population:

  • • Gaps in coverage
    • - More than 40% of the population in Indonesia is not covered by health insurance
    • - Targeting errors and overlaps in beneficiaries
    • - Geographic and financial access to health services
    • - Challenges of BPJS Kesehatan in expanding coverage
  • • Gaps in the level of protection
    • - Exclusion of some treatments and diseases in the current programmes
    • - Lack of clear benefit package and in-depth actuarial data of the current Jamkesmas

 

2. Gaps and issues in the provision of income security for children:

  • • Gaps in coverage
  • • The need for data improvement and clear targeting mechanisms
  • • The need for better coordination and programme synchronization
  • • Issues in programme management and disbursement of benefits

 

3. Gaps and issues in the provision of income security for the working age population:

  • • Lack of linkages between employment programmes and social security programmes
  • • Training often provided in ad hoc manner
  • • Severance pay provides insufficient protection compared to unemployment insurance
  • • Challenges of BPJS Ketenagakerjaan (BPJS II) in expanding coverage

 

4. Gaps and issues in the provision of income security for the elderly and for people with disability:

  • • Coverage gap
    • - The majority of Indonesian workers are currently without old age benefits
    • - Under-coverage of social assistance for people with severe disabilities and the elderly
  • • Data limitations
  • • Old age lump sum benefits provide insufficient protection compared to monthly pension

 


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