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Although Indonesia’s health care indicators show it has improved, it is still one of the poorest systems. Indonesia has made steady progress in revamping the health care system, after widespread devastation by the tsunami that struck on December 26, 2004. JHPIEGO, a John Hopkins University affiliate has been of great help in the process of rejuvenation of the health care system in Aceh. The mobilization and financial help from three major private sector enterprises, Johnson & Johnson, ExxonMobil and UNOCAL have already begun to help in the transformation.
Initiatives have already been made in three different villages to improve the working capacity of health care providers. Despite the low per capita consumption of pharmaceuticals, rising population numbers should boost demand for medical services, resulting in the pharmaceutical market reaching the value of US$3.75 billion in 2012, growing by around five to six percent each year. Sales of traditional herbal medicines, known as jamu, are expected to considerably outpace those of conventional pharmaceuticals.
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