DPR Asks Government to Form a Team for BPJS PBI Issues
MEMBER of House Commission IX, Zainul Munasichin, has asked the government to form a task force or a specialized one-stop team that can resolve issues related to the Health Social Security Provider Assistance for Contribution Assistance Recipients (PBI BPJS) directly at every hospital.
In the context of PBI membership deactivation, he said, the Ministry of Health and BPJS Kesehatan are essentially only data users whose source data comes from the Ministry of Social Affairs as the party executing the policy. Nevertheless, he emphasized the importance of maintaining cohesion and synergy between institutions.
“We must not allow a situation where, just because they feel they are merely users, institutions appear to be passing the buck. We must remain united and work together to find solutions so that the public is not disadvantaged,” said Zainul in a written statement on Saturday, 14 February 2026.
Zainul said the deactivation of 11 million PBI participants, including approximately 120,000 patients in the catastrophic category, should have been mitigated from the outset through proactive measures by BPJS Kesehatan. The National Awakening Party (PKB) politician noted that BPJS possesses detailed participant data, including catastrophic patients.
He said that if the data on 120,000 catastrophic patients had been provided as comparative data to the Ministry of Social Affairs from the beginning, the deactivation process could have been handled more carefully.
“The Ministry of Social Affairs would have had comparative data before making a decision,” said Zainul.
Zainul stated that in the next three months, the most crucial stage is the validation of the 11 million deactivated PBI participant records. Therefore, he proposed the formation of an ad hoc team or task force at hospitals, particularly government hospitals with large numbers of BPJS PBI participants.
“I envision a one-stop team at hospitals, consisting of representatives from BPJS, the Health Office, and the Social Affairs Office, that can directly resolve issues on site,” he said. “So when a patient arrives and their membership has been deactivated, clarification and assessment can be done right then and there, without having to go back and forth handling administrative matters.”
Zainul cautioned against cases where PBI patients who actually fall within the bottom four deciles are deactivated because they are deemed to be in the fifth decile and above.
“We must not have patients who are rightfully eligible being told to go home and handle administration through hierarchical, multi-layered processes. Many of our people cannot cope with such bureaucratic procedures. With a specialized team during this three-month transition period, issues can be resolved directly at the hospital,” he said.
The government decided that the 11 million BPJS Kesehatan PBI recipients deactivated in the latest round will continue to receive free healthcare services for the next three months. The policy was the result of an agreement between the Ministry of Social Affairs, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Finance, and the House of Representatives (DPR) at a consultation meeting on social security data management on Monday, 9 February 2026.
“For the next three months, all healthcare services will continue to be provided and the PBI contributions will be paid by the government,” said DPR Deputy Speaker Sufmi Dasco while reading out the meeting conclusions in Senayan, Jakarta.
BPJS Kesehatan PBI participants were suddenly deactivated due to the updating of social assistance recipient data through the implementation of the National Socioeconomic Single Data (DTSEN) system. This data is used as the sole reference for all government assistance programs. The incident caused an uproar as it left dialysis patients unable to receive treatment because their BPJS PBI had been deactivated.