Jakarta, Aug. 7 -- The Health Ministry has asked the Transmigration Ministry's 2026 Patriot Expedition Team (TEP) to map public health issues and basic services in transmigration areas to support efforts to improve the quality of human resources.

Director General of Primary and Community Health at the ministry, Maria Endang Sumiwi, said the mapping should be conducted alongside the identification of economic potential by the 1,476 TEP participants, who will be deployed to various transmigration areas.

"I hope that, besides identifying economic potential, TEP members will also observe the quality of human resources when they go into the field," Sumiwi said in an official statement here on Friday.

While delivering a briefing to the 2026 ...