Jakarta, March 28 -- The National Health Insurance (JKN) coverage has reached 267 million people, or equivalent to 95.77 percent of the nation's population, by 2023-end, according to the Health Ministry's Director General of Health Services, Azhar Jaya.

"The number almost reached the 98 percent coverage target as mandated by the 2024 RPJMN (National Middle-term Development Plan)," Jaya stated in a working meeting with Commission IX of the House of Representatives (DPR RI) and state health insurer BPJS Kesehatan, broadcast online here on Wednesday (Mar 27).

The director general remarked that out of the 267 million insurance participants, 214 million can be considered as being "active participants" who pay their insurance fees. Meanwhile,...