The Anachronism of the Indonesian Social Security Policy in Health

Abstract

The rights for social security can be found in the 1945 Constitution of Republic of Indonesia, Article 34 section (2) which reads “The state develops a social security system for all citizens and empowers the weak and the poor according to the human dignity”. With the purpose of achieving every citizen’s rights for social welfare as stated in the Mandate of the Constitution, so the Constitution No. 40 year 2004 on the JKN (National Social Security) and the Constitution No. 24 year 2011 on the Social Security Administering Body are issued as the legal protection of the National Social Security System and the National Healthcare Security in Indonesia. The implementation of National Healthcare Security is rather problematic. Some complaints of the BPJS (Social Security Administering Agency) participants regarding the BPJS-Health include rejections form health facilities or health workers to the BPJS patients with various reasons. A protruding problem is the minimum activation number or the BPJS waiting period for social welfare participants. This results to the citizens’ violation of rights in receiving healthcare services form the social security program.