Aging & Society: Eighth Interdisciplinary Conference

Abstract

Indonesia is the fourth largest population in the world and there is rapidly aging. According to Statistics Indonesia, forty-eight million people or 15.8 percent will be 60 years and older by 2035, more than triple the number in 2000. This demographic change has major implications for the economic development, with rising in health-care costs, a shrinking workforce, and higher pension costs. This paper aims to present the economic status of older persons and their participation in National Health Insurance (NHI), especially in informal sector. Findings will contribute to the current efforts in the promotion of prepayment schemes for health. Using the 2016 National Socio-economic Survey data, we analyzed associations between selected variables of interest, also using the Logistic regression model. In this study, we selected respondents who are informal workers 55 years old and above, divided into 55-64 years, and 65 years and above. A total sample of respondents are 73,191 persons, or 22.49 percent of total number of informal workers. There are 48.1% of respondents living with the low economic status, and only 12.3 percent of them have high economic status. Most of respondents or 42.2 percent not included in NHIs participants. Only 20.2 percent of respondents including in prepayment participants of NHI. The characteristics of respondents who not NHI participants are low education, and most of them have economic status below quintile four. Sample with higher education had two times the odds of being aware of the NHI than they with less than primary education.