Indonesia is facing up to its need for health care investment

Reforms will encourage companies to provide innovative medicines

Budi Gunadi Sadikin

October 18, 2023 17:00 JST

A doctor talks with diabetes patients at his clinic in Jakarta: A lack of doctors and medication has driven up to 2 million Indonesians a year to seek health services abroad. © Reuters

Budi Gunadi Sadikin is Indonesia's minister of health.

For Indonesia, the last mile to becoming a prosperous high-income industrialized nation by 2045 will involve addressing a critical area in which international impact investors could play a supporting role: building health resilience for all.