TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – Minister of Higher Education, Science, and Technology Satryo Soemantri Brodjonegoro revealed the plan to restrict the opening of medical faculties in Indonesian universities.
“We will temporarily limit the opening of medical faculties,” he told the media crew on Monday, January 13, 2025.
The minister acknowledges the shortage of doctors in the country, but asserts that opening new medical faculties is not the appropriate solution.
“What we need is more doctors, not medical faculties,” he said.
On a different occasion, Deputy Minister of Health Dante Saksono Harbuwono said Indonesia still lacks 120,000 general practitioners, based on the ideal ratio…