Many doctors are noble-hearted and live off their salaries, but others have gone absent from the local government health clinics because they are tired of performing what they deem social work.

If you go for treatment at the Ganjaragung Health Clinic in Metro, Lampung, don't expect to meet a doctor. Last week, TEMPO went to that particular clinic—which is purportedly staffed by four doctors—and waited in vain for three hours. A mid