STRATEGIC ASSESSMENT. Ambassador Lakhdhir said the United States has demonstrated its commitment to helping Indonesia realize a healthy society by investing $58.9 million (around IDR934.4 billion) in Indonesia’s health system in the past year. The United States has invested more than $1.1 billion (IDR17.5 trillion) in Indonesia’s health system, including $58.9 million in the past year alone.
Kamala said that the U.S. partnership with Indonesia in the health sector is carried out by, among other things, continuing to improve disease outbreak monitoring, strengthening health security, improving tuberculosis detection and clinical treatment, and modernizing health information systems. She added that a new grant worth $649 million (IDR10.3 trillion) from the U.S. Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) announced earlier this year will double U.S. development assistance to Indonesia over the next five years.
