PDIP Agrees That The DKI Provincial Government Deactivates NIK Residents Living Outside Jakarta, But Don't Make Riots

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JAKARTA - The chairman of the PDIP faction of the DKI Jakarta DPRD, Gembong Warsono, approved the DKI Provincial Government's plan to temporarily suspend the population identification number (NIK) of residents with DKI ID cards who already live outside the area.

However, Gembong gave a special note on this policy. Gembong emphasized that the deactivation of the NIK of DKI residents who no longer live in Jakarta should not cause a commotion ahead of the 2024 General Election.

"The concept really agrees because it involves the distribution of social assistance. However, this is before the election. Don't make a fuss when their voting rights are eliminated," said Gembong at the DKI Jakarta DPRD building, Thursday, May 4.

Gembong said that the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government needs to coordinate with the General Elections Commission (KPU) in matching public data that will be disabled by its NIK. Do not let them lose their right to vote on election voting day.

"If we talk about their voting rights, of course we need good coordination with the KPU, that's all because this is before the election, right. Don't let only 1 or 2 people whose NIKs are turned off will be fatal to the election results," he explained.

Actually, this member of Commission A of the DKI Jakarta DPRD hopes that, if possible, the implementation of the deactivation of the NIK will be carried out after the 2024 General Election so that political contestation will not be disrupted.

"If the first option is after the election. The second option is coordination with the KPU. This means that good coordination must be carried out so that people's voting rights are not disrupted due to deadly NIK," explained Gembong.

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.

However, there is no certainty about the time to implement the deactivation of the NIK in the population document. Head of the DKI Jakarta Population and Civil Registration Service (Disdukcapil) Budi Awaluddin said that currently his party is recording residents who do not live in the DKI Jakarta area.

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.