The Deactivation Of NIK Residents Of DKI ID Cards Living Outside The Region Is Carried Out After The 2024 General Election

Head of the DKI Jakarta Population and Civil Registration Agency (Disdukcapil) Budi Awaluddin said that the temporary deactivation of the population identification number (NIK) of residents with DKI ID cards who no longer live in Jakarta will begin after the voting day for the 2024 General Election.

Currently, the DKI Provincial Government has only conducted socialization to regional apparatus at the city level to RT/RW. Along with that, the verification of data on residents with DKI ID cards living outside the area also continues.

"Currently, we are socializing and verifying data. Only, later in March 2024, after the election, we will immediately deactivate it," Budi told reporters, Thursday, May 4.

Budi explained that the decision to temporarily deactivate the NIK of DKI residents living outside the region was carried out after the 2024 General Election was based on a recommendation from Commission A of the DKI Jakarta DPRD.

He said that the deactivation of the NIK could not be carried out in the near future, considering that the General Elections Commission (KPU) would set a permanent voter list (DPT) after the update on June 21, 2023.

If the deactivation of the NIK is carried out before the election, Budi continued, then DKI residents who live in other areas will lose their voting rights to vote.

"Although the public also wants to be carried out quickly, they are afraid that at the KPU, when the DPT has been determined, those who migrate will become special voters. This will change the DPT," said Budi.

"Also, maybe it will take a long time to also provide comfort to the community with calm to carry out better socialization (IK deactivation)," he added.

This policy of eliminating the NIK is contained in the DKI Regional Secretary Instruction Number e-0014/2023 concerning Temporary Deactivation and Reactivation of the NIK and Balik Homecoming Data Collection in 2023.

This data collection mechanism refers to the Decree of the Head of the DKI Jakarta Population and Civil Registration Office Number 80 of 2023 concerning Guidelines for Deactivation and Reactivation of Population Identification Numbers (NIK).

"(The deactivation of the NIK/KTP residents of DKI no longer live in Jakarta) is an effort to control population administration where residents with DKI Jakarta ID cards must de factoably live in the DKI Jakarta area," said Budi.

So far, around 194,000 Jakarta residents have settled outside the area. This figure, said Budi, will continue to grow along with further records.

"This data was obtained based on the findings in the field and RT/RW reports over the last few years. After that, RT/RW will re-verify the results of matching and research in the field," he said.