Kemendikbud Asked To Take Breakthrough Steps To Restore Lecture KIP Services

Photo : Illustration of KIP Lecture.(Kemendikbud)

Chairman of Commission X DPR RI, Syaiful Huda asked the Ministry of Education and Culture to take breakthrough steps to restore access to the Indonesia Smart Lecture Card (KIP Lecture) service which was affected by the hacking of the Provisional National Data Center (PDNS) 2 Surabaya.

"The impact of the hacking of PDN has made the KIP Lecture service down and cannot be assessed for both the submission process for new students and the disbursement process for old students. We hope that there will be breakthrough steps from the Ministry of Education and Culture so that the KIP Lecture service can recover soon," he said in a written statement, Sunday, June 30, 2024.

He revealed that nearly one million Indonesian students depend on the source of tuition financing from KIP Lectures. If this service cannot be immediately accessed, both for the submission process and disbursement, then it is certain that the learning process will be disrupted.

Moreover, continued Huda, the quota for recipients of this year's KIP Lectures reached 985,557 students. They consist of students who receive on going KIP Lectures, students who receive New KIP Lectures, and students who receive tuition fees.

"The data on hundreds of thousands of students cannot be accessed temporarily as a result of hacking so that offline services cannot be carried out," he added.

This politician from the PKB faction is worried that the data recovery process will last a long time. Especially if it turns out that the Ministry of Education and Culture does not have a back up of data on KIP Lecture recipients stored in PDNS 2. This is where the importance of breakthrough steps so that the interests of students receiving KIP Lectures to study are not disrupted.

"The Ministry of Education and Culture can form a Lecture KIP Task Force tasked with overseeing the digital data recovery process as well as re-data collection of KIP Lecture recipients manually. Maybe the re-data collection process takes time, but it must be done so that the importance of learning KIP Lecture recipients is not disrupted," Huda concluded.