East Jakarta City Government Expands Free Health Check-Up Programme Through Outreach to Schools and Communities
The East Jakarta city government is expanding access to the Free Health Check (CKG) programme through outreach services delivered to various locations, from schools to community groups.
“We continue to expand access to services through various communities in East Jakarta, such as ministries, schools, government offices, places of worship, community groups and public events such as the Jakarta Fair (PRJ),” said the Head of the East Jakarta Health Sub-Department, Arief Wahyudhy, when contacted by ANTARA in Jakarta on Saturday.
The effort is intended to make it easier for people to obtain health check services without having to visit a community health centre (puskesmas) in person.
According to Arief, this outreach approach is one of the effective ways to increase health check coverage and make it easier for people with limited time to visit health facilities to use the CKG service.
“We are strengthening CKG services by expanding the reach of services through outreach, meaning services are not only provided inside the building but also outside the puskesmas premises,” he said.
In addition to expanding service locations, the East Jakarta Health Sub-Department is also stepping up health promotion so that people better understand the importance of regular health checks as a means of early disease detection.
“We are also expanding the reach of CKG through the puskesmas clinic network, strengthening services down to auxiliary puskesmas level, and ensuring the sufficiency of human resources and infrastructure,” Arief explained.
Going forward, he assured that outreach services would continue to be strengthened so that the CKG programme reaches the environments where people carry out their daily activities.
“We hope that more and more East Jakarta residents will take advantage of early health check services, so that disease risks can be detected more quickly,” Arief said.
Previously, the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government recorded that the Free Health Check (CKG) programme had reached approximately 2.57 million residents, or 23.24 percent of the total target population in the second quarter of 2026, by the end of June 2026.
“This achievement has exceeded the second-quarter target set at 23 percent,” said the Head of Public Health at the DKI Jakarta Provincial Health Office, Octoviana Carolina, when contacted in Jakarta on Thursday (9/7).
The DKI Jakarta province’s target for the CKG programme in 2026 is 46 percent of the total target population.
The DKI Jakarta Provincial Government is also implementing various measures to improve the programme’s coverage, one of which is through the community-based CKG approach.