Jakarta, March 24 -- The Ministry of Health reported identifying 889 thousand Tuberculosis (TB) cases as of early March 2025, achieving 81 percent of the detection target of 1,090,000 cases set for 2024.

The ministry's Director of Infectious Diseases, Ina Agustina Isturini, stated during a media briefing on Monday that the number of people detected and treated for TB continues to increase every year.

In 2023, the ministry aimed to detect 1,060,000 TB cases but achieved only 77 percent of this goal, identifying 821,200 cases and treating 78 percent of them, which equates to 722,863 patients.

"Although we have improved compared to the previous year, we still face challenges in achieving the target of detecting 90 percent of cases, or aro...