Returning KJMU Recipients Who Had Been Crossed Out, Heru Affirmed That There Would Be Re-Use Checks

JAKARTA - The DKI Jakarta Provincial Government has decided to re-enter the data on the recipients of the Jakarta Superior Student Card (KJMU) which had previously been crossed out and sparked protests.

Acting Governor of DKI Jakarta Heru Budi Hartono admitted that there was an error in the KJMU recipient determination system so that it removed thousands of students from the list of recipients.

Although the student data was re-entered, Heru emphasized that his party would still re-check it to determine the feasibility of the recipients of the social assistance for education costs.

The feasibility check for receiving the assistance includes a field survey regarding the socio-economic conditions concerned, synchronizing data on ownership of assets and vehicles, as well as improving welfare rankings (desils) which are appropriate benchmarks for the KJMU to be given.

"Later, it will be cross-checked with tax data from the Regional Revenue Agency. We will see the data, surveyed again. Indeed, those who do not get the KJMU because everything is capable, so yes we hold it. We can give this budget to people who can't afford it," said Heru at DKI Jakarta City Hall, Thursday, March 7.

Heru's clarification regarding the chaos in the data on KJMU recipients was revealed after inviting a number of students to come to DKI City Hall today.

To the students whose names had been dropped from the list of recipients, Heru asked them not to worry about the problem anymore because the DKI Provincial Government has taken steps as a solution.

"I make sure that those who have received it on their way to KJMU can still get it, and of course the data matching will continue. That's the person to person," explained Heru.

For information, there is a change in the data on KJMU recipients phase 1 of 2024 because the DKI Provincial Government uses a new mechanism in the use of data sources.

The data source for determining KJMU recipients that students had complained about was the Integrated Social Welfare Data (DTKS) as of February and November 2022, as well as as as as of January and December 2023 which were approved by the Ministry of Social Affairs.

Then, the data is matched with data from the Socio-Economic Registration (Regsosek) issued by the Ministry of National Development Planning/National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas).

The matching of DTKS with Regsosek is carried out to find out the ranking of welfare (desil). The decil categories that are still included in the criteria as recipients of educational assistance are very poor (desil 1), poor (desil 2), almost poor (desil 3), and vulnerable to poverty (desil 4).

Meanwhile, KJMU recipient students who are now set to fall into the 5-10 decile category or who are considered to be able to be removed from the list of recipients of social assistance for education costs.

The problem is that many underprivileged students are set to be included in the 5-10 decile, so they are removed from the KJMU list of recipients.