Public Health Laboratory Unit Staffing Structure: PERMENKES 7/2026

The Ministry of Health has issued its second amendment to the 2023 regulation governing how technical implementation units in the public health laboratory field are organised and staffed. The instrument is titled Peraturan Menteri Kesehatan Nomor 7 Tahun 2026 tentang Perubahan Kedua atas Peraturan Menteri Kesehatan Nomor 25 Tahun 2023 tentang Organisasi dan Tata Kerja Unit Pelaksana Teknis Bidang Laboratorium Kesehatan Masyarakat (Minister of Health Regulation No. 7 of 2026 on the Second Amendment to Minister of Health Regulation No. 25 of 2023 on the Organisation and Work Procedures of Technical Implementation Units in the Field of Public Health Laboratories). It amends selected articles of the parent regulation rather than replacing it, and the unamended provisions of PERMENKES 25/2023 remain in force.

Issue

PERMENKES 25/2023 established the organisational template for the network of public health laboratory units — the UPT Bidang Labkesmas — that sit under the Ministry of Health and carry out laboratory work at the sub-national level. That template assigned each unit a head, internal sub-units, and a functional staffing layer. Since 2023 the wider civil service framework has shifted toward a simplified bureaucracy in which structural echelon posts are converted into functional and implementing positions, and ministries have been amending their organisational regulations to match. The second amendment brings the laboratory unit template into line with that shift by removing a layer of internal structure and re-specifying the staffing categories that replace it.

Key Provisions

Pasal 1 restates the definitions used throughout the regulation. It defines a Technical Implementation Unit (UPT) as an independent work unit carrying out specified technical operational tasks or specified technical support tasks on behalf of its parent organisation, and defines the UPT Bidang Labkesmas as the unit that manages public health laboratory functions. It also identifies the Minister as the minister responsible for health affairs, and identifies the Director General and Directorate General as the senior official and organisational unit responsible for primary and community health management within the Ministry.

The amendment then changes Pasal 2 paragraph (2), which sets out the placement of the units within the ministerial structure. Pasal 4 is amended so that the component identified in paragraph (1) letter c consists only of a head and of functional and implementing positions; paragraph (2) of that article is deleted outright, removing the sub-unit tier it previously created.

Consistent with that deletion, the title of Chapter VI is changed to read "Functional Positions and Implementing Positions" (Jabatan Fungsional dan Jabatan Pelaksana), replacing the earlier heading that referred only to functional positions.

Pasal 15 carries the substance of the new staffing arrangement. Paragraph (1) provides that functional and implementing positions at each laboratory unit are determined according to need and in accordance with statutory provisions. Paragraph (2) assigns functional position holders the task of providing functional services in support of the work unit's duties and functions, according to their field of expertise and skill. Paragraph (3) assigns implementing position holders the task of carrying out public service activities together with governmental and development administration. Paragraph (4) provides that, in performing the tasks under paragraphs (2) and (3), groups of functional positions and groups of implementing positions are formed on the basis of position clusters (rumpun jabatan) in accordance with statutory provisions.

Pasal 16 is likewise amended. It addresses the groups formed under Pasal 15 paragraph (4), providing that the functional position group serves the duties and functions of the leadership of the organisational unit, and setting out the corresponding role of the implementing position group.

Implications

For the laboratory units themselves, the practical effect is a flatter internal chart: a head, and beneath the head two categories of staff organised by position cluster rather than by sub-unit. Staffing levels are set by assessed need rather than by a fixed structure written into the regulation, which places the sizing decision with the Ministry and the applicable civil service rules rather than with the organisational regulation itself. Units that previously operated the deleted sub-unit tier will need to reassign the personnel concerned into one of the two position categories.

Because the instrument is an amendment, readers working with the laboratory unit framework must read PERMENKES 7/2026 alongside PERMENKES 25/2023 and the first amendment to it. The scope of each unit's technical tasks, its geographic coverage, and its reporting line to the Directorate General responsible for primary and community health remain governed by the parent regulation.

Regulatory Context

PERMENKES 7/2026 forms part of a group of Ministry of Health instruments issued in the first half of 2026, several of which address service organisation and health administration, including the measures covered in a parallel Ministry of Health regulation and in an earlier 2026 instrument. Its subject matter — the internal organisation of a government technical unit — places it in the administrative rather than the licensing or standards category of health regulation, alongside instruments such as the ministry's other 2026 organisational measures.

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