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By Ferlita Aprillia
INDONESIA
PROFIL
Ferlita Aprillia
Gadjah Mada Univesity
Community Pharmacy
Herbal Pharmacy
population of 247 million. However, Indonesia's spending on health is less than the average
for countries in the East Asia and Pacific region and the lower middle income group of
countries. Since 2005, the public finance and supply systems for pharmaceuticals have
witnessed major changes, such as decentralization of most public health services to district
governments, establishment of the BPJS scheme for the poor, the creation of the National
Agency of Drug and Food Control, and the introduction of competitive tendering for public
procurement of medicines.
marketing of branded generic, generic, and licensed drugs from pharmaceutical companies
abroad. Pharmacists in Indonesia have begun to be engaged in health promotion and public
health practice. The practice of clinical pharmacy services is relatively new in Indonesia,
being introduced around the beginning of the twenty-first century. The concept of clinical
pharmacy itself has not been fully accepted by health workers in the hospitals, so that
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