The Occupational Health Challenges towards Globalization in Indonesia

Introduction:   Indonesia is the largest nation in South East Asia populated of almost 220 million people which more than half of them are productive ages who have not got equal access to occupational health service. This article is aimed at presenting the challenge and opportunity to improve the occupational health and safety programme in Indonesia.    

Methods: The articles and documents were gathered using a complementary structured and hand searching to enhance the occupational health and safety related data of Indonesia.  The data was synthesized to build idea of recommendations.      

Results:  There is accident data especially from formal sector companies are available, but an up to date national data of work related diseases are very limited. The law and regulations concerning occupational health and safety has been launched for decades, however the company compliances are still poor. Occupational health services have not reached small scale industry and informal sector workers in particular. Lack of stakeholders’ awareness, lack of their occupational health related knowledge and skill, limited provision, and also no available integrated supporting information system are challenges in improving occupational health and safety programme.    

Conclusions:  Providing public/workers education, improving the manager and occupational health professional knowledge, implementing integrated information system, and advocacy seem to be key points and opportunity towards better Indonesia OHS service in global era.