Central Jakarta Intensifies TB Contact Tracing to Break Transmission Chain
Jakarta (ANTARA) — The Central Jakarta Health Sub-agency (Sudin Kesehatan) is strengthening integrated tuberculosis (TB) contact tracing at 578 sites across 44 kelurahan (urban villages) as an effort to break the chain of transmission of the disease.
Central Jakarta Mayor Arifin has instructed district and kelurahan officials to mobilise Dasawisma cadres, neighbourhood and community unit (RT/RW) officers, jumantik (larvae monitors), and other community elements to support the tracing exercise so that screening targets can be met.
“I am asking the lurah (village heads), together with cadres, to accompany the Sudin Kesehatan team as they carry out integrated TB tracing in the field,” Arifin said in a statement in Jakarta on Tuesday.
The TB tracing is being conducted through the Free Health Check (CKG) programme from August to October 2026, targeting screening of 57,800 residents, or roughly 100 people at each site.
According to Arifin, the involvement of local government and community-level cadres is expected to broaden education on TB prevention and treatment whilst making it easier for health workers to identify residents in need of screening or treatment.
Meanwhile, the head of the Central Jakarta Health Sub-agency, Ilmi Tri Indiarto, urged residents not to worry about taking part in the tracing, as TB is a curable disease provided patients undergo treatment regularly in accordance with the advice of health workers.
“We will also carry out investigation and examination of close contacts of TB patients to find similar cases so that treatment can be started immediately,” he said.
Ilmi explained that close-contact tracing is a crucial part of TB control efforts because it enables earlier case detection before transmission spreads within families and the wider community.
According to data from the DKI Jakarta Health Office, 3,174 TB cases were recorded in Central Jakarta between January and 31 July 2026, spread across 44 kelurahan.
All of those patients are currently undergoing treatment in accordance with established procedures.