Since the topic of this thread is health insurance for expats on Bali I fail to understand how comments about what Indonesians, other than those in Bali, do regarding their medical care choices relate to the issue being discussed.
But, since it's been raised, allow me to correct some of the prior comments.
True enough, wealthy Indonesians may well choose to head off to Kuala Lumpur, Singapore or Bangkok for serious medical issues, but they are a small minority. I guess you would have to have lived here for many years to understand that the vast majority of Indonesians, when in need of medical care, are more than happy to rely on local medical care as provided by a myriad of excellent medical facilities, as well as local healers which are found in a number of indigenous Indonesian cultures far beyond Bali, and its famed Balians.
As for the quality of medical care available in Indonesia, again, I guess one would have to be a user of local medical care to understand that it's actually pretty good. In fact, in a year 2000 WHO report about the quality of medical care for each world country, Indonesian ranked right in the middle, and that was way back in 2000
or 14 years ago.* Today, if such a study were done, Indonesia would surely rank even higher. It's a pity that the WHO hasn't conducted a more recent study to verify what anyone who has been living here for many years already knows.
Back in the 1980's and even to the late 1990's it used to be fair game to knock the quality of medical care available in Indonesia
but things change, and here in Indonesia, things generally change for the better
once again, as anyone who has lived here for past decade and one half, already knows.
*Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Heal … ms_in_2000