Rehabilitation Policies And Strategies For Substance Use Disorder In Indonesia

This presentation will be featured at Indonesia 2025, on 17.09.2025.

Author: Bina Ampera Bukit

Abstract:

Background

Substance use disorders (SUD) is a global health problem. Approximately 3.3 million people in Indonesia age 15-64 were use drugs (BNN Prevalence data,2023). Drugs problem management continues as an effort to develop holistic, integral, and sustainable rehabilitation arrangements for substance uses disorders, prioritizing professionalism, dedication, and responsibility. Policies and strategies are needed to protect and save the community from substance use disorder in Indonesia.

Purpose

This presentation will convey the implementation of policies and strategies of Deputy for Rehabilitation BNN through strategic goals and targets, program and activity determination, as well as indicator achievement and evaluation monitoring. In 2024, the sustainable rehabilitation service capability index reached 3.49, categorized as Managed. Meanwhile, regarding quality of life improvement, rehabilitation service recipients experienced improvements across four domains: physical, psychological, social, and environmental.

Methodology/Approach

This presentation explains how improving substance use disorder recovery efforts through comprehensive and sustainable rehabilitation services is achieved through strategic objectives: encouraging the improvement of rehabilitation service facilities according to standards, improving human resource capabilities, and increasing access to community-based rehabilitation. The performance indicators are the Sustainable Rehabilitation Service Index Assessment and Improving the quality of life rehabilitation service recipients.

Main content/Key Point 

The discussion will cover the achievement of performance indicators through the strategic targets of the Deputy for Rehabilitation including the number of abusers accessing rehabilitation services.

Benefits

Policies and strategies in efforts to protect and save community  from substance use disorder in Indonesia can provide one option in strategies for handling substance use disorders.

Keywords

Deputy of Rehabilitation BNN, SUD, Strategy, rehabilitation service capability index, quality of life