Jakarta, Feb. 4 -- Indonesia's Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin said the government is developing a hospital-based specialist training system to address the shortage of medical specialists in the country, particularly in underdeveloped, frontier, and remote regions.

"Doctors are still in very short supply, especially anatomical pathology specialists, who are urgently needed in Indonesia, but there are very few, making it extremely difficult. That's why we are now creating a hospital-based specialist training system," Budi said during a discussion with doctors from Simeulue General Hospital in Aceh, on the occasion of World Cancer Day in Jakarta on Wednesday.

The minister emphasized that the initiative aims to rapidly produce more med...