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VOInews, Jakarta: Indonesia and Sweden launched the 2024 Health Services Platform in Jakarta on Friday (26/4). It is part of the Sweden-Indonesia Sustainable Partnership Program (SISP) which has been launched since 2020. 

This launch was attended by Indonesian Minister of Health, Budi Gunadi Sadikin and Swedish Ambassador to Indonesia, Timor Leste and ASEAN, Daniel Blockert, as well as health industry players. In his speech, Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin conveyed that through the partnership program, the Indonesian government wants to facilitate the business sectors of both countries in a bid to expand networks and opportunities for cooperation.  

He also remarked that the business people have a high role in encouraging and succeeding the programs of the two countries that want to improve health services for the community.

”When you see these arrangements, it's less G-to-G, but more G-to-private. So, we are dealing not mostly with the government of Sweden, but with private companies. To become a high income country, impossible for the government if we don't facilitate the private sector. The one that moves the needle of the economy is the private sector. If we want to move the needle, we have to write a regulation that the private sector coming in, invests, it's much more efficient. Compared to private hospitals, we are nothing. I think government hospitals are only 800 and declining. The number of private hospitals is increasing. So, more and more deliveries of healthcare services are done by the private sector,” he conveyed.   

Moreover, in 2023, the Swedish team along with the Indonesian Ministry of Health will begin a collaborative effort to develop the partnership program of  2024 Health Services Platform. Both countries are working together to share knowledge, technology and experience in developing sustainable health services. 

The Sweden-Indonesia Sustainable Partnership (SISP) is an inter-governmental (G-to-G) platform to develop collaboration between Sweden and Indonesia where both countries work together to meet the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).  This partnership aims to foster cooperation between Swedish and Indonesian institutions and companies in various sectors, including transport, energy, health, mining and manufacturing. (Ndy/ Mar/AF/Rahmana)