Jakarta, June 26 -- President Prabowo Subianto has directed the Health Ministry and the Higher Education, Science, and Technology Ministry to establish new medical faculties and increase the number of doctors in Indonesia.

"We must urgently open new medical faculties and nursing academies and efficiently expand new specialist education courses," the president stated while opening the Sanur Health Special Economic Zone (SEZ) and Bali International Hospital (BIH) in Denpasar, Bali, on Wednesday.

Ministers should not be constrained by "antiquated procedures and regulations" that "could not address current challenges" in the effort to increase the number of domestic medical practitioners, Prabowo stated.

He emphasized that the government m...