Policy Economic Analysis of HIV/AIDS Intervention in Indonesian Local Government

Abstract

Global governance concerns the issue of HIV/AIDS through Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and followed by Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In the Indonesian context, the number of people living with HIV/AIDS has been increasing in the last ten years. This paper studies the HIV/AIDS policy intervention in an Indonesian local government context by using policy economic analysis. The finding demonstrates that the policy intervention has been applied through a supply approach such as in welfare states in which the local government provides free access to health facilities for HIV/AIDS-positive persons. This approach differs from the macro policy level of the Indonesian central government who adopts free-market orientation and demand intervention of health economics. The research focuses on a Yogyakarta Special Province case study while the data depend on analysing and interpreting regional and national regulation of HIV/AIDS and policy recommendations of the regional public health department. We argue that the improvement of local intervention emerges as the supply is just for the HIV/AIDS diagnosis test and it does not cover the continued HIV/AIDS health treatments and nursing.