Terawan Agus Putranto

Terawan Agus Putranto (born 5 August 1964) is a military doctor and radiologist by profession, who is the current Minister of Health of Indonesia, in office since 23 October 2019. He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of Gajah Mada University and then joined the Indonesian Army as a military physician.

Positions

 * Indonesian Presidential Medical Team, 2009.
 * Chairperson of the Indonesian Radiology Specialist Association.
 * Honorary chairman of the International Committee of Military Medicine.
 * Chair of the ASEAN Association of Radiology.
 * Head of the Gatot Soebroto Army Hospital, 2015.
 * Minister of Health of Indonesia, 2019.

Controversy
Prior to his appointment as minister of health. Terawan was known for his “brain-cleaning” treatment or intra-arterial cerebral flushing, a combination of digital subtraction angiography (DSA) and heparin injection for stroke patients. He claimed his method was effective treatment for stroke patient, which led to Indonesian Medical Association (IDI) issued a recommendation to suspend him for a year over an ethics violation for violating three articles of the Indonesian Doctors Ethics Code. Around october 2019, Terawan was named as one candidate to be minister of health. IDI then written to Jokowi, suggesting that he should not be appointed as minister. However, Jokowi said that Terawan had met all criteria required to be a minister of health, and refer to his previous experience in managing budgets and human resources, including during his service as the Gatot Soebroto Army Hospital (RSPAD) director.