Jakarta (ANTARA) \u2014 The Ministry of Health said that as of July 2026,\nthe Free Health Check programme (Cek Kesehatan Gratis, CKG) has reached\n73.8 million people, of whom around 62.7 million were screened at\ncommunity health centres (puskesmas) and in communities, and around 11.1\nmillion children were screened at schools.<\/p>\n
Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin said in Jakarta on Tuesday that\nthe figure is part of the 2026 coverage target of 130 million people.\nCKG in 2026, he said, focuses on follow-up for three health conditions \u2014\nblood pressure, blood sugar and high cholesterol \u2014 as part of efforts to\nraise life expectancy and healthy life expectancy.<\/p>\n
\u201cIndonesia\u2019s (life expectancy) was 72. Now it has risen to 74. By\n2029 the target is 76 years,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Director General of Primary and Community Health at the Ministry of\nHealth, Dr Maria Endang Sumiwi, said that under CKG 2026, coverage has\nincreased across all age groups, with participants this year including\n1.5 million newborns and 4.5 million pre-school children.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have carried out school CKG, although from the second week of\nAugust it will be much larger. For school-age children, coverage is 14.6\nmillion compared with just 33,000 last year. For adults, by July last\nyear it was 12 million; this year it is already 43 million,\u201d she\nsaid.<\/p>\n
In addition, she said, 9.7 million elderly people took part in CKG\nthis year, compared with only 2.4 million in 2025.<\/p>\n
Provinces with the highest coverage, she said, include Gorontalo,\nSoutheast Sulawesi, Central Java, Banten and Lampung.<\/p>\n
Regarding follow-up to CKG, she said data from the information\nsystems of three puskesmas show that hypertension management ranges from\n43 to 62 per cent.<\/p>\n
Although coverage is higher than in 2025, Endang noted that\nchallenges remain, including public ignorance of CKG, reluctance to be\nchecked for fear of the results, or being too busy to find the time.<\/p>\n
She also reminded the public to undergo CKG every year, because\nthrough the programme one can detect conditions that previously did not\nexist.<\/p>\n
She gave the example that in 2025, around 36 million people did not\nhave diabetes mellitus. Of those 36 million, 8.39 million were\nre-examined in 2026, and 188,000 of them turned out to have developed\ndiabetes.<\/p>\n
At the same event, health expert from the University of Indonesia, Dr\nIwan Ariawan, said that if ignorance of one\u2019s health condition is left\nunaddressed, an estimated 5.9 million cases of hypertension worsening\ninto cardiovascular disease are expected by 2035.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut with CKG, we can reduce this by 30 per cent. The rest are\nalready beyond help because they already had hypertension before,\nalready uncontrolled before,\u201d he said.<\/p>", "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/free-health-screening-programme-reaches-73-8-million-indonesians-by-july-2026-1785837414", "image": "" }, "sponsor": "Okusi Associates", "sponsor_url": "https:\/\/okusiassociates.com" }