Analysis of Crowdfunding Platform in Encouraging Equal Health Services (a case study of Kitabisa.com)

摘要

Inequity of public health service in Indonesia is one of social problem that still need attention and comprehensive evaluation to provide complete solution. The citizen in the low-income family facing difficulty to have health treatment even if government has public health insurance for citizen. Unfortunately, the insurance could not cover all health issues and illness, so people must pay for their expensive treatment fee. Nowadays, crowdfunding is easily conducted through a platform. In Indonesia one of the first platform is Kitabisa.com. It helps to encourage easy and transparent fundraising, that in some cases has been helped people in need to get proper treatment and improve their health condition. Thus, this study aims to evaluate if the platform utilization in improving the equalization in health services. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), four elements must be fulfilled as the requirements that the right to health which are availability, accessibility, quality and equality. This study aims to analyze how the crowdfunding platform could provide those four elements. The data was collected by observation in the testimonies and comments on the campaign conducted in the platform. The result shows that the four principles are supported through the utilization of crowdfunding in the platform.