Jakarta, Aug. 6 -- Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin announced that the government's policy of special allowances for specialist doctors and subspecialists working in underdeveloped, frontier, and outermost (3T) regions was initiated by President Prabowo Subianto.

The policy, stipulated in Presidential Regulation Number 81 of 2025 concerning Special Allowances for Specialist Doctors, Subspecialists, Specialist Dentists, and Subspecialist Dentists Working in Disadvantaged, Border, and Island Regions (DTPK), will be announced and launched by the president next month.

"The president has issued a Presidential Regulation regarding incentives for specialist doctors in disadvantaged areas," Sadikin remarked when met on Tuesday (August 5).

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