This Regulation, considering the urgency of developing strategies and programmes to achieve the targets for disease control, food security, and national health security in Indonesia, and in order to prevent, detect, and respond to the threats of public health emergency and disasters due to antimicrobial resistance (AMR), provides for defining a National Action Plan containing the objectives, scope, targets, strategies, programs, and activities for AMR control. The National Action Plan (NAP) constitutes a guidance for ministries, institutions, regional governments, and partners and consists of: introduction; coordination mechanisms; monitoring and evaluation; clusters of working groups’ activities related to the Antimicrobial Resistance Control; and projection of the financing for the NAP on Antimicrobial Resistance Control. The NAP comprises the following six strategies: raising awareness and understanding of AMR control through communication, education, and training; improving the scientific knowledge and evidence through surveillance and research; reducing infection through sanitation, hygiene-related measures; monitoring and implementing sanctions against the distribution and use of antimicrobials that do not meet the standards for humans, animals, fish, and plants; investing in new treatments, diagnostic methods, and vaccines to curb the spread of AMR. Concerning targeted measures and actions, the National Action Plan concerns: strengthening the consumption quality, food security, and the availability of food generated by agriculture, fisheries, and the sea, through improved production techniques; improving well-being of agricultural and fishery workers, and thus their productivity; improving the national food system governance; promoting healthy lifestyle, disease control and antimicrobial resistance control; improving access to healthy food choices through food labelling, and the improved consumption of fruits and vegetables; strengthening the health care system; promoting the prudent use of antimicrobials in humans, animals, fish, and plants, focusing on the residues of animal-based food products; reducing the incidence of infection through food handling practices, small-scale vaccination, use of medicines and medical treatments, biosecurity measures and good farming practices.
Indonesia · 2021-10-15