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Jakarta (VOI News) - The Swedish Ambassador to Indonesia and Timor Leste, Marina Berg, said Sweden and Indonesia had many opportunities for cooperation that could be improved in the health sector. She said there are several Swedish companies such as Getinge and Brighter currently working on several pilot projects with health institutions and universities in Indonesia. According to her, this cooperation could be further enhanced by increasing incentives for healthcare research and innovation. This was conveyed by Marina Berg in a virtual discussion themed Good Health and Well-Being: Using the 2030 Agenda to Achieve Healthcare Reform, Friday (27/11). The virtual discussion was a series of activities of the Sweden-Indonesia Sustainability Partnership week, organized by Team Sweden, the Embassy of Sweden, and Business Sweden to commemorate 70 years of Indonesia-Sweden diplomatic relations.

"We need to both nationally and globally increase incentives for healthcare research and innovation and I’m aware that Indonesia has issued a regulation to facilitate access to research use only, devices for clinical research. This could be the door opener for collaboration and I fully encourage Swedish companies to act to such an initiative. This framework creating supported policies and regulations for companies will allow Indonesia to attract more Foreign Direct Investments, as well as Swedish companies, invest more in Indonesia as the market," said Marina Berg.

The Swedish Ambassador to Indonesia and Timor Leste, Marina Berg, further said that health problems are much more than just healthcare. She mentioned the disaster risk reduction program. She said Team Sweden has started a collaboration with Unicef ​​to work with Indonesia in the area of disaster risk reduction and prevention. (VOI / AHM)