Ahok Criticizes The Deactivation Of NIK Jakarta Residents Living Outside The Region, Heru Budi: Just Enforce The Rules

Acting Governor of DKI Jakarta Heru Budi Hartono in the National Monument (Monas) area, Central Jakarta, Friday, May 17. (Diah Ayu/VOI)

JAKARTA - Acting Governor of DKI Jakarta Heru Budi Hartono responded to criticism from former DKI Jakarta Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama (Ahok) regarding the plan to deactivate the NIK of Jakarta residents who had lived outside the area.

Heru emphasized that the DKI Provincial Government only carries out regulations regarding population administration control. The deactivation of the NIK to encourage residents to take care of this domicile move is regulated in Article 15 Paragraph 2 of Law (UU) Number 23 of 2006 concerning Population Administration with amendments to Law Number 24 of 2013.

"The DKI Regional Government only enforces the existing rules," said Heru when met in the National Monument (Monas) area, Central Jakarta, Friday, May 17.

Heru asked all parties to understand the importance of controlling population administration. He emphasized that the policy of deactivating the NIK could help the community resolve problems to reduce the number of crimes.

"If someone has an accident, the address is different, there is no RT where the RT is, where the location at the address is no longer a house building, where do we want to tell the family? and that happened. So, related to banking administration," explained Heru.

Previously, Ahok assessed that the deactivation of the NIK of Jakarta residents living outside the area would make it difficult for people affected in managing the population administration who were affected. Not to mention, it is feared that unscrupulous persons or brokers will emerge from the processing of the document.

"For me, it's not very important. So, don't bother people," Ahok said in a video on his YouTube account, Call Me BTP.

Ahok is also worried about the fate of Jakarta residents who live outside the city because of job demands.

"For example, you are assigned to work outside the city for up to 6 months. Cook, you have to lose your ID card in Jakarta? How difficult it is for you to take care of everything just because you worked (outside)," he said.

According to Ahok, if Jakarta was predicted as a megapolitan city after the transfer of IKN, the provincial government should not have to question any ID cards and open space for all people to come.

"We should have opened this megapolitan (to) anyone who is looking for food in Jakarta. As long as it doesn't create crime or harm Jakarta. That's more important in my opinion," added Ahok.