Data Check: Prabowo Says Indonesia is Short 140,000 Doctors, What's the Current Number?
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Presidential candidate number two, Prabowo Subianto, stated that Indonesia still has a shortage of doctors.
He made this statement during the fifth Presidential Election debate of 2024, themed Social Welfare, Culture, Education, Information Technology, Health, Employment, Human Resources, and Inclusion, held at the Jakarta Convention Center (JCC) on Sunday, February 4th, 2024.
In the vision-mission presentation session, Prabowo pledged to accelerate the handling of this issue. "Indonesia is short about 140,000 doctors," he said.
The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that each country have a ratio of 1 doctor per 1,000 inhabitants.
Based on this ratio, with Indonesia's population reaching 278.7 million, Indonesia needs approximately 278,700 doctors.
However, citing *Indonesia Statistics 2023* from the Central Statistics Agency (BPS), until 2022 Indonesia only had around 176,100 doctors. This number is a combination of general practitioners, dentists, specialists, and specialist dentists.
Based on this calculation, until 2022 Indonesia still needed approximately 102,000 additional doctors to meet the WHO's recommended ratio.
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