Demographic Bonus for Indonesia: Challenges and Policy Implications of Promoting Universal Health Coverage

Abstract

Indonesia has been promoting Universal Health Coverage (UHC) since 2014 as targeted in the national development plan document. Indonesia has also entered the stage of demographic bonus that could enhance the benefit of social welfare. Starting from the idea of demographic bonus and the campaign of accelerating UHC in Indonesia, this paper tries to answer question of how demographic dividend affects the promotion of UHC declared by the government of Indonesia. Then, this paper analysis the effects of demographic bonus based on two specific policies, supply side policy and demand side policy. The results of the analysis might not directly relate to the issue of demographic bonus. However, it could recommend several suggestions which could deal with the opportunity of demographic bonus. This paper is limited as it only based on some simple calculations on meeting the needs and the gaps on UHC.