ASIATODAY.ID, JAKARTA – The Indonesian government officially prohibits the trade in organs intended for curing disease and restoring health through transplantation. This prohibition is contained in the implementing regulations of Government Regulation Number 28/2024 for Law Number 17/2023 concerning Health.
“Organs and/or body tissues as referred to in paragraph 1 are prohibited from being commercialized or bought and sold for any reason,” reads Article 326 paragraph 2 in the regulation.
In the next article, the regulation regulates donors for organ and/or tissue transplantation consisting of living donors and dead donors. The living donor referred to in these regulations is a donor whose organs or tissue are taken while the person concerned is still alive with the consent of the person concerned.
Meanwhile, a dead donor is a donor whose organs or tissue are removed when the person concerned has been declared dead by medical personnel at a health service facility and must have the family’s written consent.
In the event that the donor dies during his lifetime and declares himself willing to be a donor, organ and tissue transplants can be carried out at the time the person concerned dies without the consent of his family. Organ transplants can only be carried out in hospitals after having business permits in accordance with statutory provisions. This regulation also regulates donor patients who are foreign nationals.
Foreign citizens who register as potential recipients can only accept potential donors from the same country and who are related by blood.
Prior to this regulation, prohibitions related to organ trafficking were only regulated in Law Number 21 of 2007 concerning the Crime of Human Trafficking (TPPO) in Article 1 paragraph 8. (ATN)
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