Primary Health Care

Health Innovation Should Not Stop at Pilot Projects: CISDI Calls for Systemic Change at Leimena Conference 2026

The Center for Indonesia's Strategic Development Initiatives (CISDI) is advocating for a stronger ecosystem that enables proven health innovations to be adopted into the national health system. This message was delivered during the plenary discussion, From Innovation to System Adoption: Building Pathways for Sustainable Primary Health Care Transformation in Indonesia, at Leimena Conference 2026 on Tuesday, 28 July 2026.

From Geneva, Switzerland, CISDI Calls for Cross-Sector Collaboration to Strengthen Primary Health Care at WHA 2026

Through this forum, CISDI invited civil society groups, multilateral organizations, academics, and private sector representatives to revisit how global health architecture can be redesigned to become more sustainable and responsive to people’s needs.

PN PRIMA Profile 2025

Pencerah Nusantara (PN) is an award-winning program focused on strengthening Primary Health Care, established in 2012. We provide solutions to help PHC deliver care for everyone, working closely with local communities to tailor interventions to their specific needs.

PN PRIMA App: A Human-Centered Decision Support Tool

The PN PRIMA App, a Human-Centered Design decision support tool helping community health workers reach mothers and children missed by the health system.

How the PN PRIMA App Equips Community Health Workers

A one-page poster on how community health workers use the PN PRIMA App, and the three results CISDI has observed in maternal and child health services.

Adoption, Contextualization, and Adaptation of the Integrated and Champion Puskesmas (PUSPA) Program

With the spirit of sharing and relentless learning, CISDI has developed a guideline or PUSPA playbook after three years working in West Java. CISDI hopes that this playbook can serve as a source of knowledge and inspiration for other institutions.

Unveiling Trends, Opportunities, and Challenges Crowdfunding for Health in Indonesia: An Integrative Review

Crowdfunding for healthcare funding has been widely adopted in various countries. This study shows that crowdfunding in Indonesia is highly used in Indonesia to finance health issues for individuals covered by JKN.

A Scoping Review on Interventions to Reduce the Workload of Healthcare Workers in Primary Health Care of Low- and Middle- Income Countries

This study performed a scoping review aimed to compile and evaluate evidence on the interventions. The review evaluated and summarized information available on multidisciplinary collaboration in primary health care of LMICs.

The Intersectional Approach to Diabetes in Primary Care: Does It Exist? A Comparative Rapid Literature Review and Policy Analysis from Indonesia and India

This paper attempted to examine national/union policy response towards addressing DM in Indonesia and India - two countries with some of the highest health burden of DM globally - using the lens of intersectionality including power analysis.

Primary health care, the history and its importance

The COVID-19 pandemic showed primary health care (PHC) played a substantial role in reducing the pressure on the health system, one of which is preventing mortality. Thus, the focus of PHC needs to be addressed directly to the community in order to optimize the prevention and treatment to COVID-19 p