Organisation of Health Equipment and Facility Safety Units: PERMENKES 10/2026

The Minister of Health has issued Peraturan Menteri Kesehatan Nomor 10 Tahun 2026, Perubahan atas Peraturan Menteri Kesehatan Nomor 28 Tahun 2023 tentang Organisasi dan Tata Kerja Unit Pelaksana Teknis Bidang Pengamanan Alat dan Fasilitas Kesehatan (Amendment to Minister of Health Regulation No. 28 of 2023 concerning the Organisation and Work Procedures of Technical Implementation Units in the Field of Health Equipment and Facility Safety). The amending instrument runs to twelve articles and restates a series of provisions in the 2023 regulation, including Pasal 8, Pasal 13, Pasal 14, Pasal 15, Pasal 16 and Pasal 19.

Issue

Testing, calibration and safety supervision of medical equipment and health facilities in Indonesia is carried out by ministry field offices rather than by the central directorates themselves. Pasal 1 supplies the vocabulary the rest of the text depends on. It defines a technical implementation unit, abbreviated UPT, as an autonomous work unit carrying out specified technical operational tasks or technical supporting tasks on behalf of its parent organisation. A UPT in the field of health equipment and facility safety, referred to as UPT Bidang PAFK, is the unit that performs that safety function. The same article distinguishes two forms of the unit by the rank of the official leading it: the centre-level form, abbreviated BPAFK, is headed by an administrator official, while the smaller station-level form, abbreviated LPAFK, is headed by a supervisory official. Both carry out the same safety function and differ in the rank of their leadership. Pasal 1 also identifies the Director General and the Directorate General concerned as those responsible for pharmaceutical and medical device management within the ministry, which places these field units under that line of authority.

Key Provisions

The amendment concentrates on how work inside each unit is allocated. Pasal 13 provides that the groups of functional positions referred to in Pasal 12 paragraph (4) deliver functional services in carrying out the tasks and functions of the unit leadership, while groups of executing positions deliver public services together with governmental and development administration. Under Pasal 13 paragraph (3), the number of functional and executing position groups is determined according to need, based on the results of job analysis and workload analysis rather than a fixed establishment. Paragraphs (4) and (5) refer the tasks, types and levels of functional positions, and the tasks and classification of executing positions, to the general civil service legislation.

Pasal 14 permits the positions and position groups described in Pasal 12 and Pasal 13 to be assigned individually or within work teams, or under another designation, to support the unit's objectives and performance. Paragraph (2) provides that such assignment is set by the performance appraisal official or the head of the organisational unit, and paragraph (3) refers the execution of those assignments to prevailing legislation. This mirrors the work team approach applied to divisions and subdivisions in the nomenclature rules for regional health offices.

Pasal 15 directs the head of a UPT Bidang PAFK to apply three cross-government systems in carrying out the unit's tasks and functions: the government agency performance accountability system, national development risk management, and national digital transformation. Pasal 16 addresses working relations between organisational units. Paragraph (1) provides that support for the combined tasks and functions of units within a UPT Bidang PAFK is to rest on a business process describing effective and efficient working relations, applying the principles of coordination, integration, synchronisation and collaboration. Paragraph (2) provides that the business process between units is established by the Minister.

Implications

Each Balai and Loka will set the number of its functional and executing position groups by reference to job analysis and workload analysis under Pasal 13 paragraph (3), and will document assignments to individuals or work teams through a decision of the performance appraisal official or unit head under Pasal 14 paragraph (2). Because Pasal 16 paragraph (2) reserves the interunit business process to the Minister, the working relations between units are set centrally rather than locally. The obligations in Pasal 15 attach reporting under the performance accountability system, risk management and digital transformation programmes directly to the head of each unit.

Regulatory Context

The regulation follows the same drafting pattern applied to other ministry field structures during 2026, including the amendments to health service unit organisation, and sits under the national health management framework. The medical devices these units test and calibrate are procured through the electronic catalogue arrangements for health supplies.

Read the full regulation in the CRPG Law Database.

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