Peruri Reveals Request For Passport Making Up To 3 Times After COVID-19

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Peruri Reveals Request For Passport Making Up To 3 Times After COVID-19

JAKARTA - After the COVID-19 Pandemic, the General Company for Money Printing of the Republic of Indonesia (Perum Peruri) recorded a three-fold increase in domestic passport-making requests.

Perum Peruri President Director Dwina Septiani said the increase was very significant. Moreover, according to him, not only the volume only increased but the specifications increased. Three times the demand was recognized not only after the status of the COVID-19 pandemic was revoked. Until now, the trend of demand for passport making is still increasing. This is related to changes in people's lifestyles for traveling. And we see the trend of increasing passports still persists this year. But then there is a change in lifestyles where people's allocations to travel experiences increase, influencing Peruri's business plans,'' he continued. In the future, he continued, Peruri will prepare raw materials or passport composition independently (end to end), aka not only printing passports, but also producing from beginning to end. The reason is, a number of compositions of conventional passports and electronic passports still take advantage of different sources. It also aims to increase the level of domestic components (TKDN) in printed passports.

The plan also reflects on the program it has implemented, namely, the seal that used to be used to use foreign-made paper, but now through a number of efforts, finally now 100 percent stamps are made by utilizing domestically. "For example, if we try in our group for several years at PT Kertas Padalarang, it's been two to three years, it's 100 percent of PT Kertas Padalarang," he explained. Thus with the demand for excise stamps from Nepal, he admitted that ink and others had used the domestically made composition which is now produced in Karawang.