Surabaya Residents Living Outside The City Asked To Immediately Report Dispendukcapil

Epala Dispendukcapil Surabaya City Agus Imam Sonhaji/ Photo: Antara

SURABAYA - The Surabaya City Population and Civil Registry Service (Dispendukcapil) asked residents who moved out of town but were still registered as residents of Surabaya, to immediately report to the local kelurahan or sub-district.

"This is to improve the accuracy of population data in Surabaya," said Head of the Surabaya City Dispendukcapil Agus Imam Sonhaji as quoted by Antara, Sunday, February 26.

According to Agus, taking into account the Letter of the Minister of Home Affairs number 470/7256/SJ dated December 27, 2021, regarding Moving to Come Residents, he was asked that the provisions of Law number 23 of 2006 must be implemented properly.

This is stated in Article 1 paragraph (11) where population events are incidents experienced by residents who must be reported because they bring about the issuance or changes to family cards, identity cards and/or other population certificates including moving to come, changing addresses, and limited stay status to permanent residence.

"Then Article 14 paragraph (1) in the event of a change in the address of the population, the Implementing Agencies must issue a change in the population registration document. Then, Article 15 paragraph (1) of the population of Indonesian citizens who move within the territory of the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia must report to the Implementing Agencies in the area of origin to obtain a Transfer Certificate," he said.

Therefore, he said, Dispendukcapil views the importance of this provision because as stipulated in article 101 in letter b of Law number 23 of 2006 concerning Population Administration, as amended by Law number 24 of 2013 which reads that all agencies are required to make NIK the basis for issuing documents.

According to him, the use of NIK, which includes information on the name and address of the population, is very appropriate to maintain the accuracy of the targets of Surabaya City Government intervention programs, including the social assistance program.

"In fact, this issue is also a concern for the Mayor of Surabaya and his staff," he said.

To ensure the accuracy of the population data, he said, the Surabaya City Government through its staff in the village has checked the presence of Surabaya's population data at the end of 2022 through the residents' Check-in application.

As a result, he continued, population data was obtained that the residents' data on the Surabaya City KTP (dejure), but the defacto had moved out of town, but had never reported its move administratively.

"Observing these data findings, we have given the next 30 days since February 27 to residents who are included in the category of findings who have moved out of town or whose whereabouts are unknown, with a fixed address status in Surabaya to report the existing address of domicile," he said.

Agus explained that the report was carried out through population administration services in kelurahan or sub-districts, so that a Transfer Certificate (SKP)-WNI from the Surabaya Dispendukcapil to the City/Regency Dispendukcapil of existing domicile addresses.

If the residents whose de facto and de jure data are not appropriate for the next 30 days do not immediately report the current position of their place of address, then their population data will be submitted to the Ministry of Home Affairs for follow-up according to the provisions.

"Furthermore, we will not use population data that is known to be incompatible between the condition of riel/factual (defacto) and the administrative data (dejure) when carrying out its intervention programs," he said.

In addition, Agus added, if the resident wants to clarify his whereabouts or existing domicile after the next 30 days, then he can come to the administrative service office in the kelurahan or sub-district to be assisted to update the latest address through the process of moving to his domicile address.

"So, please report before the next 30 days," he said.