In this photo taken on April 13, 2016 shows Indonesians waiting in the corridor of a public hospital in Jakarta, to get health care. With 160 million members, Indonesia's two years old national health insurance programme is the largest national health scheme in the world. / AFP PHOTO / BAY ISMOYO / TO GO WITH AFP STORY: Indonesia-health-politics, FEATURE by Kiki Siregar
JAKARTA: When Heni Karmila sought to find a doctor for her ailing mother using Indonesia’s new healthcare system, she faced a nine-hour wait in a line outside a crowded public hospital in Jakarta.
“The queue at the hospital is always very long, packed with young and old people, pregnant women, people who have had accidents, those in need of operations and even tiny babies,” the small business owner, 43, told AFP.
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