{"id":213537,"date":"2023-03-07T10:25:47","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T02:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=213537"},"modified":"2023-03-07T10:25:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T02:25:48","slug":"indonesians-spend-billions-on-healthcare-overseas-mainly-in-malaysia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=213537","title":{"rendered":"Indonesians spend billions on healthcare overseas, mainly in Malaysia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Mohd Iswandi Kasan Anuar<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>JAKARTA, March 7\u00a0(NNN-Bernama) &#8212; Indonesians spent 165 trillion rupiah (US$10.7 billion) per year for\u00a0medical treatment abroad, especially in Malaysia, President Joko Widodo said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The president, who is popularly&nbsp;known as Jokowi, said almost one million Indonesian patients went to Malaysia for treatment with another 750,000 to Singapore and other countries like Japan, the US and Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cShould we let it go on like this?\u201d he asked while addressing the inauguration ceremony of a new private hospital in Bandung, West Java.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hence, the government will fully support the construction of more hospitals with international standards to prevent the country from losing a large amount of foreign exchange, he stressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Cabinet Secretariat\u2019s office, in a statement noted, Jokowi urged the health and education ministries&nbsp;to solve the shortage of specialist doctors in order to improve the health services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adequate medical equipment and good physical facilities were also key&nbsp;to providing better services, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mohd Iswandi Kasan Anuar JAKARTA, March 7\u00a0(NNN-Bernama) &#8212; Indonesians spent 165 trillion rupiah (US$10.7 billion) per year for\u00a0medical treatment abroad, especially in Malaysia, President Joko Widodo said. The president, who is popularly&nbsp;known as Jokowi, said almost one million Indonesian patients went to Malaysia for treatment with another 750,000 to Singapore and other countries like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":213540,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,288,286,198,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213537"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=213537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213541,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213537\/revisions\/213541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/213540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=213537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=213537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=213537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}