Indonesia’s health partnerships with the US Agency for International Development are in jeffrey, Indonesia’s health minister said on Thursday ( Feb. 6), and it is not clear whether they will be permanently suspended.
In a big overhaul that may reduce its workforce and correlate its investing with his” America First” philosophy, US President Donald Trump’s administration is considering merging USAID, Washington’s main humanitarian company, into the State Department.
A US ice on foreign help for Indonesia may burden the Eastern government’s efforts to fight against HIV and tuberculosis, which replaced COVID-19 to become the leading cause of viral disease-related deaths globally in 2023.
” That is on hold. No stopped”, health minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin told Reuters, referring to its jobs with USAID.
” We don’t know if it’s confirmed to be erased or nevertheless under assessment”, he said, adding he may have more quality in the next 90 days.
USAID has invested US$ 800 million in Indonesia since 2020, the US ambassador in Jakarta said in November.
The South Asian government’s projects with the US company have involved HIV and disease. More so than USAID, Budi said, Indonesia even receives medicines from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, which counts Washington as its biggest donation.
The US Embassy in Jakarta and USAID did not respond to inquiries for reply right away.