JAKARTA LIFE'S STYLE

Indonesia remains vulnerable to the attacks of malaria, a disease caused by anopheles mosquitoes, due to its people’s unhealthy life style, a doctor said. This condition made Indonesia become one of the world’s malaria-vulnerable nations, said Secretary of the Indonesian Medical Doctors Association (IDI)-West Kalimantan Provincial Chapter Nursyah Ibrahim.

According to the Global Fund’s research findings, about seventy percent of Indonesian people were vulnerable to the malaria disease, he told newsmen here Monday. In 2009, Indonesia had almost two million malaria cases but there were more cases that were not revealed, he said.

"The existing cases are generally based on the results of manual diagnosa, not the outcomes of laboratory tests," Ibrahim said.

In various parts of the country, a lot of public health centers had no laboratory facilities and capable human resources, he said. Therefore, the number of malaria cases in Indonesia could likely exceed two millions, he said.

In dealing with this condition, Ibrahim called on the people to destroy anopheles mosquito breedings by keeping their neighborhood clean and getting rid of stagnant water. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), malaria in Indonesia mainly occurs in Papua, Nusa Tenggara, Sulawesi, Kalimantan, and Sumatra islands.

"It occurs with low frequency or is non-existent in Java and Bali where approximately 70 percent of the population live. All strains of human malaria are to be found in Indonesia," WHO said.

In the past, the eastern parts of Indonesia were home to P. malariae and P. ovale, but the two strains had also been found in Lampung Province and Nias Island, North Sumatra, in recent years. In Aceh, the provincial government had pledged to get rid of malaria by 2015, for which the central government had provided Rp20 billion.

The fund was partly used for buying 105,000 mosquito nets and anti-malaria drugs. The efforts to enable Aceh to get rid of malaria was also supported by international donors like Global Fund. Indonesia had set itself to become malaria-free by a long shot in 2030.

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