THE Health Insurance Program for the Poor (Askeskin) is an idea of Siti Fadilah Supari, conceived at the beginning of her term as Health Minister. Understandably, therefore, she is going all-out to save her program, which is now being threatened because hundreds of billions of rupiah’s worth of claims submitted by the government’s hospitals remain unpaid.

“Conceptually, this program was planned to perfection. It just depended on implementa