The lack of health workers in remote and rural areas is a worldwide concern. To solve this problem, the Ministry of Health of Indonesia performed a program named Non-Permanent Personnel Appointment (PTT) for doctors and dentists who serve in health centers throughout Indonesia, except for the islands of Java and Bali. It is aimed to fullfill the need of health workers in disadvantaged areas, border and island (DTPK) as well as in areas that lack doctors and dentists. This research is a descriptive study using secondary data from PTT applicants in the Bureau of Personnel in the Ministry of Health from 2010 to 2015, which aimed to identify the doctors’ and dentists’ choices of location (provinces) as areas of assignments. The result showed that at the national level, each year, the number of doctor applicants always exceeded the formation, while the formation of dentists always exceeded the number of applicants, except in 2013. West Sulawesi, Gorontalo, Central Sulawesi, North Sulawesi, Central Kalimantan, and Papua are provinces that lack doctor applicants, while Riau, Kepulauan Riau, South Sulawesi, West Sumatra, North Maluku and Maluku are provinces with sufficient, even abundant number of dentist applicants. Conclusion: the number of doctors who apply for PTT is quite high, but the distribution is uneven (the island of Sumatera has the highest applicants), while the number of dentists who apply for PTT is still lesser than the demand

Keywords : Non Permanent Personnel Appointment (PTT), doctors PTT, dentists PTT, rural, remote