No Infrastructure to Support Precision Health Yet

Indonesia still lags behind in the development of precision health. It is for this reason that Indonesia has initiated research and the development of precision medicine to be integrated into society.

JAKARTA, KOMPAS – Precision medicine, which takes into account individual genetic factors, environmental adaptation and lifestyle, is deemed the future of prevention, diagnostics and health care. Compared with other countries in the Asia-Pacific region, Indonesia still lags behind in the development of personalized medicine as there is no infrastructure and human resources to support it yet.

Indonesia scored 29 in the 2020 Asia-Pacific Personalized Health Index report, which is below the average score of countries in the Asia-Pacific, at 51. Countries that scored the highest included Singapore (71), followed by Taiwan (67) and Japan (64).