Jakarta – In order to increase supervisory capacity in the health sector, the Indonesian Ombudsman held an online discussion with the theme “Public Services Towards Health Transformation Post-Covid-19” which was attended by Ombudsman personnel both at the center and representatives, Thursday (31/3/2022) .

RI Ombudsman member Robert Na Endi Jaweng in his speech said that health issues are crucial issues, especially in terms of public services. Especially at this time the Main Assistant VI as his competence has received new responsibilities to handle health substances.

“The Ombudman wants to continue communication and dialogue with research institutions to get a perspective in seeing the phenomenon in a more complete and comprehensive manner to see how policies are drawn up and how public services are carried out,” said Robert.

According to Robert, there are three issues that need to be discussed together, namely the transition plan from pandemic to endemic, the roadmap for the six pillars of health transformation, and global health issues where Indonesia is currently hosting the G20.

“This is a testing period, where health insurance will be an important warning. What preparations can be made to get to the endemic period and what response patterns need to be done by the community when living side by side with this virus,” added Robert.

Also present as resource persons were the Secretary of the Directorate General of Public Health and Spokesperson for Covid Vaccination of the Ministry of Health Siti Nadia Tarmizi, Chief Strategist of the Center for Indonesia’s Strategic Development Initiatives (CISDI) Yurdhina Meilissa, Researcher of the Center for Innovation Policy and Governance (CIPG) Klara Esti. (ix)