Legal Literacy - Compared to other fields of legal studies, health law is not very familiar to Indonesian society. This may be due to the exclusivity of health law, which is more familiar among academics and health practitioners. Health law is compulsory for medical students throughout Indonesia in the Medico-legal course, but health law is not compulsory for law students.

The rapid development of the national health insurance system requires every Indonesian citizen to be registered as a member of the Social Security Agency (BPJS) Kesehatan. This is intended to ensure that the practice of health insurance is in line with the provisions of Article 28 H of the 1945 Constitution, which states that "everyone has the right to live in physical and spiritual prosperity, to have a place to live, and to obtain a good and healthy environment, and has the right to obtain health services, and the state is obliged to provide them."

In carrying out this constitutional mandate, every citizen needs to understand the rights related to health and the state's obligations to fulfill them. Therefore, knowledge of health law should be possessed by everyone.

Definition of Health Law

Prof. H.J.J. Leenen formulates that health law includes all legal provisions that are directly related to health maintenance and the application of civil law, criminal law, and administrative law in that relationship. Also, international guidelines, customary law, and jurisprudence related to health maintenance, autonomous law, science, and literature become sources of health law (Fred Ameln, 1991, 14).

The above definition provides an overview that health law focuses on all provisions relating to health maintenance (health care), both directly and indirectly. Legal provisions that are directly related to health maintenance include, for example, provisions regarding immunization procedures and provisions for the eradication of infectious diseases. Meanwhile, indirect provisions are based on rules that have civil law dimensions, criminal law, and administrative law that are applied in relation to health maintenance.