Jakarta, March 17 -- Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto has ordered the Health Ministry to address staffing shortages at roughly 4,000 public community health centers, or puskesmas, in disadvantaged, frontier and outermost (3T) regions, officials said.

Minister of State Secretariat Prasetyo Hadi said the directive was delivered to Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin during a coordination meeting on national strategic programs at the Defense Ministry in Jakarta on Tuesday.

"The health minister has been urged to collect data on staffing needs, particularly in 3T regions," Hadi told reporters after the meeting, without giving a timeline for completing the nationwide assessment.

Hadi said the president's order followed Sadikin's report ...