Jakarta (ANTARA) - President-elect Prabowo Subianto summoned Budi Gunadi Sadikin, who is serving as Health Minister in President Joko Widodo's government, to discuss health issues, including doctor vacancies and vaccines for tuberculosis and malaria.Sadikin said that he was summoned to Prabowo's private residence in Kertanegara IV, Jakarta, on Monday evening for a meeting with the president-elect.
"The number of doctors must be sufficient, the number of specialist doctors must be sufficient. (We discussed) How can the education of doctors and specialist doctors be increased," he informed.
During the closed meeting, Prabowo and the minister also mulled over the possibility of sending Indonesians to medical schools abroad to speed up efforts to fill doctor vacancies in the country.
According to Sadikin, Prabowo expects the health check program to continue to be scaled up to support public health.
"He also ordered that there are diseases that he thinks (we) should be able to overcome in Indonesia, such as tuberculosis and malaria. Those should be eliminated quickly, find a vaccine so that our community can quickly get rid of these diseases," he added.
When asked by the media about his ability to fulfill the requests, he said that Prabowo had not mentioned anything related to it.
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From 3:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on Monday, Prabowo summoned ministerial candidates to his private residence in Kertanegara to discuss their Cabinet assignments.
They included professionals, academics, politicians, bureaucrats, religious figures, high-ranking officials of community organizations, active police officials, as well as former soldiers.
Overall, 49 figures were summoned by Prabowo on Monday:
1. Prasetio Hadi (chairperson of the Gerindra Party)
2. Sugiono (deputy general chairperson of the Gerindra Party)
3. Widiyanti Putri Wardhana (businesswoman)
4. Natalius Pigai (human rights activist)
5. Yandri Susanto (deputy general chairperson of the National Mandate Party/PAN)
6. Fadli Zon (deputy general chairperson of the Gerindra Party)
7. Nusron Wahid (Golkar Party politician)
8. Saifullah Yusuf (secretary general of Nahdlatul Ulama/Minister of Social Affairs)
9. Maruarar Sirait (Gerindra Party politician)
10. Abdul Kadir Karding (politician from the National Awakening Party, or PKB)
11. Wihaji (deputy general chairperson of the Golkar Party)
12. Teuku Riefky Harsya (secretary general of the Democrat Party)
13. Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono (general chairperson of the Democrat Party/Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning Minister)
14. Arifatul Choiri Fauzi (Nahdlatul Ulama)
15. Tito Karnavian (former police chief/Minister of Home Affairs)
16. Zulkifli Hasan (chairperson of the PAN/Minister of Trade)
17. Satryo Soemantri Brodjonegoro (academic)
18. Yassierli (academic)
19. Yusril Ihza Mahendra (Constitutional law expert/Crescent Star Party or PBB politician)
20. Bahlil Lahadalia (chairperson of the Golkar Party/Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources)
21. Abdul Mu'ti (secretary general of the Muhammadiyah)
22. Muhaimin Iskandar (chairperson of the PKB)
23. Raja Juli Antoni (secretary general of the Indonesian Solidarity Party/PSI, Deputy Minister of Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning)
24. Agus Gumiwang Kartasasmita (Minister of Industry)
25. Pratikno (Minister of State Secretary)
26. Iftitah Sulaiman (confidant of former president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono)
27. Commissioner General of Police, Agus Andrianto (deputy police chief)
28. Ribka Haluk (acting governor of Central Papua)
29. Maman Abdurahman (Golkar Party politician)
30. Rachmat Pambudy (academic)
31. Hanif Faisol Nurofiq (director general of the Ministry of Environment and Forestry)
32. Erick Thohir (Minister of State-Owned Enterprises)
33. Andi Amran Sulaiman (Minister of Agriculture)
34. Nasaruddin Umar (Grand Imam of the Istiqlal Mosque)
35. Dito Ariotedjo (Minister of Youth and Sports)
36. Budi Gunadi Sadikin (Minister of Health)
37. Sultan Bachtiar Najamudin (chair of the Regional Representatives Council)
38. Raden Dodi Priyono (head of the budget administration section at the Bureau of Budget Planning and Foreign Cooperation/ secretary general of the Ministry of Public Works and Public Housing)
39. Sakti Wahyu Trenggono (Minister of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries)
40. Budi Santoso (secretary general of the Ministry of Trade)
41. Dudy Purwagandhi (member of the board of commissioners of state-owned electricity company PT PLN)
42. Airlangga Hartarto (Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs)
43. Sri Mulyani Indrawati (Minister of Finance)
44. Veronica Tan (businesswoman and philanthropist)
45. Supratman Andi Agtas (Minister of Law and Human Rights/Gerindra politician)
46. Donny Ermawan Taufanto (acting secretary general of the Ministry of Defense)
47. Rosan Perkasa Roeslani (Minister of Investment)
48. M. Herindra (Deputy Minister of Defense)
49. Meutya Hafid (chairwoman of Commission I of the House of Representatives/Golkar Party politician)