With the increasing use of ionizing radiation in healthcare for both treatment and diagnostic purposes, ensuring patient radiation protection and safety in healthcare facilities has become a critical issue under BAPETEN's oversight.

BAPETEN holds an annual seminar called the Radiation Safety Seminar on Medical Exposure (Sekarpadi), formerly known as the Si-INTAN Seminar. This seminar is also held to commemorate World Patient Safety Day and provides a platform for sharing knowledge and experiences in an effort to strengthen, grow, and raise awareness and concern for ensuring radiation safety for patients on an ongoing basis.

The theme of Sekarpadi 2025 is "Dose Management Systems and Radiological Review as Effective Efforts to Ensure Radiation Safety for Patients." In his remarks on Wednesday, January 15, 2025, Rusmanto, the Head of the BAPETEN Health Assessment Function Group, stated, "This Sekarpadi activity is carried out to foster, strengthen, and increase awareness and concern for ensuring radiation safety for patients. It also serves as a form of dissemination and socialization of the important role of implementing justification and optimization of radiation protection for medical exposures, as well as a radiation safety culture in ensuring patient safety."

The Sekarpadi launch was conducted online via Zoom webinar and BAPETEN YouTube livestream, with 38 participants participating in the proposals. Participants were given four months to conduct their research, leading up to the culmination of the Sekarpadi event on September 3, 2025. Possible research topics are as follows:

1. Implementing justification for the use of ionizing radiation sources in the medical field;

2. Implementing optimization of radiation protection for patients through dose audits using Indonesian Diagnostic Reference Level (I-DRL);

3. Implementing dosimetry audits in radiotherapy and nuclear medicine;

4. Implementing a radiation safety culture for patients;

5. Implementation of radiological reviews for medical procedures involving radiation;

6. Implementation of reporting and education on preventing radiation incidents in patients, including unnecessary radiation exposure;

7. Strengthening the competency and role of personnel to support the implementation of radiation protection and safety for patients.

At the end of the webinar, a question-and-answer discussion was held, and this activity is expected to serve as a platform for sharing knowledge and experiences regarding good practices for implementing the principles of justification and optimization of radiation protection and safety in the medical field. (BHKK/CD/Translator: GP)