A critical review of definitions of rural areas in Indonesia and implications for health workforce policy and research

Table 1 Remote health facility¹ locations according to the presidential and CBS definitions

Source of data: MoH, 2018
¹According to MoH letter DG.01.01/II/1979/2018. All of the remote health facilities were owned by the government (Puskesmas)
²According to the Head of CBS Regulation 37/2010, 67,602 villages were classified as rural and 16,329 urban in 2018
³According to Presidential Regulation 131/2015, 122 districts are considered less developed and 392 as more developed in 2018

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