The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the gaps and complexities of health systems around the world. Indonesia saw no exception as the health system was tested to the limits. Three years after the first reported case in Indonesia, CISDI saw the need for structural changes in its national health system if Indonesia were to progress forward. Arguing for the shift towards a system-thinking with a health in all policy approach and intersectional considerations in the health system through robust multi sectoral collaboration.

White Paper

This study highlights the potential health and economic benefits of sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) tax implementation in Indonesia. The study employs modeling analysis to project the health and economic impacts of SSB taxes on the burden of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) throughout 2024–2033.

Estimating the Health and Economic Impact of Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxes on Type 2 Diabetes Burden in Indonesia

This quantitative research used a two-part regression method to determine the impact of taxation and an increase of sweetened drinks on household calorie consumption using data from Susenas 2019.

Price Elasticity Study: Two Part Model

The findings reveal a strong positive correlation between cigarette price increases and the likelihood of smoking cessation among adult smokers in Indonesia, emphasizing the importance of more effective tobacco taxation policies.

The Impact of Cigarette Prices on Adult Smoking Cessation in Indonesia 

The cheap cigarettes and the widespread presence of informal retailers of loose cigarettes represent a challenge in reducing tobacco consumption among Indonesian adolescents. This study presents qualitative and quantitative findings on the association between loose cigarette purchases among adolesce

The Association between Loose Cigarette Purchase and the Frequency, Intensity, and Initiation of Cigarette Use among Adolescents : A Mixed-methods Study in Indonesia

This study aims to map the situation and challenges of vaccinating vulnerable groups in Indonesia, assist the government to identify sub-populations of vulnerable groups in the context of health emergencies in Indonesia, and formulate policy recommendations related to governance.

Policy Study A Study on The Inclusivity of The COVID-19 Vaccination Program

Survey on public perceiveness and support for sugar sweetened beverages (SSB) taxation in Indonesia through online survey

Survey on Public Perceiveness and Support for Sugar Sweetened Beverages (SSB) Taxation in Indonesia

Comparative country studies using the narrative review method and identification studies were obtained from the FGD process with several groups, namely policy makers, researchers/experts, NGOs/youth movements and consumers aged 18-65 years.

Country comparison study:  A Comparison Study of Sugar Sweetened Beverages (SSB) Taxation in South East Asia: Lesson Learned for Indonesia 

This evaluation will focus on the processes, achievements, and efforts to accelerate health services in western, central, and eastern Indonesia while qualitatively identifying inequalities between regions. 

Evaluating efforts in accelerating health care service in Indonesia; Case study of Puskesmas in West, Central, and Eastern Indonesia

This study aims to map the future challenges and policies that must be prepared for human resource planning in the health sector in Indonesia and provide input for the concept of reforming the National Health System in the 2022 RKP.

Foresight Human Resource in Health

The Indonesian Academy of Sciences (AIPI) and the Center for Indonesia's Strategic Development Initiatives (CISDI) launched the foresight study to summarizes the actual conditions of primary health care in Indonesia.

Foresight to Structuring the Future of Indonesia's Primary Health Care

This study highlights that tobacco spending crowds out household budgets on essential commodities such as food, clothing, housing, education, and health care. The simulation reveals that reducing tobacco spending will significantly increase household spending on essential commodities.

The Crowding-out Effect of Tobacco Consumption in Indonesia

CISDI conducted survey research using the online survey method to determine the level of knowledge, accessibility and public support for the plan to implement Sugar-Sweetened Beverages excise tax in Indonesia. 

Survey on Public Understanding and Support for Excise Tax on Sugar-Sweetened Beverages in Packages

Smoking households divert 11% of their budget to buy cigarettes and other tobacco products. Tobacco spending could be deemed as wasteful spending for three main reasons: (1) it does not contribute to calorie intake, (2) it diverts resources from spending on essential commodities, and (3) it adversel

The Impoverishing Effect of Tobacco Use in Indonesia

This study examined the socioeconomic and behavioral correlates of COVID-19 infection among hospital workers in Indonesia, the country hardest-hit by the disease in the Southeast Asia region

Socioeconomic and Behavioral Correlates of COVID-19 Infections among Hospital Workers in the Greater Jakarta Area, Indonesia: A Cross-Sectional Study

This study aims to understand the demand side needs and challenges to access telemedicine and primary health care (PHC) services to design telemedicine solutions. 

BMGF

Scoping review related to the impact of artificial sweeteners on health and the application of excise taxes on artificial sweeteners in various countries

Low-or Zero-Calorie Sweetened Beverages (LCSBs): Health Impacts and Implementation of Excise Policy in Various Countries

This study aims to understand the demand side needs and challenges to access telemedicine and primary health care (PHC) services to design telemedicine solutions.

This research attempts to explore the direction of changes in smoking status and behavior after more than ten months of the COVID-19 pandemic and the determinants of changes in smoking status and behavior by collecting nationally representative data of mobile phone users in Indonesia.

Changes in Smoking Status and Behavior After Ten Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Indonesia

This study investigated the role behavioral immune system and specific beliefs in COVID-19 misinformation in predicting COVID-19 protective behaviours. 

The role of behavioural immune system and belief in COVID-19 misinformation on COVID-19 protective behaviours in Indonesia

This is a randomised controlled trial which aims to to understand the barriers that prevent widespread vaccination and find strategies that will work best for rural communities with limited awareness, education levels, cultural barriers, and susceptibility to misinformation.

Promoting Vaccine Take-Up and Tackling Vaccine Hesitancy: The Role of Local Health Workers and Leaders in Indonesia

This qualitative study aims to identify conditions, challenges and support for the implementation of excise policies on sweetened beverages and obtan a different view of the tax/excise application process for sweetened drinks in several Southeast Asian countries and Non-Southeast Asia

Identification of Conditions, Challenges and Support for The Implementation of SSB Tax

The anticipated financial and health consequences of children's exposure to smoking on malnutrition have raised global concerns. This publication presents CISDI findings that reinforce the idea that paternal smoking may increase the risk of stunting, thinness, and overweight among their children.

Through thick and thin: Do parental smoking behaviors affect the children's stunting, thinness, and overweight status?

CISDI in collaboration with the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) has conducted a study to estimate the total health costs incurred during 2019 to deal with smoking-related diseases, including the cost borne by the Health Insurance Program.

The 2019 Health Care Cost of Smoking

CISDI published the Health Outlook 2021 to provide direction for the Government and as a reference for other stakeholders in determining the priorities for improving Indonesia's health policy.

CISDI Health Outlook 2021

CISDI published the Health Outlook 2020 to provide direction for the Government as well as a reference for other stakeholders in determining priorities for improving Indonesia's health policy. 

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