Hundreds Of Thousands Of KJP Recipients Revoked, DKI DPRD: Where Is The Logic?

The working meeting of Commission E of the DKI Jakarta DPRD at the DKI DPRD building, Monday, December 23. (Diah-VOI)

JAKARTA - Commission E of the DKI Jakarta DPRD is busy questioning the ranks of the DKI Jakarta Education Office and regarding the large number of withdrawals of Jakarta Smart Card (KJP) Plus funds for hundreds of thousands of recipients at the second phase of 2024 distribution.

Member of Commission E of the DKI Jakarta DPRD, Abdul Aziz, said that many council members received complaints from the public, especially their respective constituents on the issue of the revocation of the KJP.

In fact, when viewed directly in the field, Aziz found that the economic condition of students whose KJP ownership was revoked remained in the underprivileged or well-being family group.

Aziz also suspects that the DKI Jakarta Education Office and related regional work units (SKPD) do not carry out the selection mechanism for the revocation of KJP students properly.

"We checked in the field, there were people whose houses were not suitable, whose KJP was canceled. Where is the logic? Has it been verified or not? Maybe it hasn't been implemented yet," Aziz said in a working meeting at the DKI DPRD building, Monday, December 23.

Aziz also urged the DKI Provincial Government to re-verify the KJP Plus recipients and ensure that the distribution is right on target. The DKI Provincial Government is prohibited from determining whether students are classified as capable or living properly so that they can be expelled from KJP recipients.

"Sir, ma'am, this concerns the future of their families. Check first in the field, the truth. If it is feasible, bring it here with the evidence, and discuss it with the members of the council," said Aziz.

Meanwhile, Member of Commission E of the DKI DPRD, Astrid Kuya, assessed that the DKI Provincial Government is reconsidering the withdrawal of hundreds of thousands of KJP targets, including the Jakarta Superior Student Card (KJMU). This is because many students or students are threatened with dropping out of school because they no longer receive educational assistance.

"If this continues continuously, many children will drop out of school and students have dropped out of school because they hope to get KJP and KJPMU," said Astrid.

The distribution of KJP Plus phase II in 2024, which has just been distributed, has been protested by a number of people. Many of the student families protested because they previously received KJP in phase I and now no longer received the education assistance.

In this case, the DKI Provincial Government revoked 146 thousand KJP Plus student ownership statuses based on data matching and verification for phase II in 2024, so that now it only covers 523,622 recipient students. Meanwhile, the distribution of KJP phase I still covers 669,716 students.

The Acting Head of the DKI Jakarta Education Office, Sarjoko, previously explained that the decrease in the number of KJP recipients from stage I to stage II 2024 was due to budget constraints in the APBD.

"With the KJP Plus recipients in stage one who then did not become recipients in this second stage, of course the first is related to the decline in the budget ceiling," said Sarjoko.

With budget constraints, continued Sarjoko, the DKI Provincial Government also needs to use the priority scale of prospective recipients with data on Socio-Economic Registration (Regsosek) to obtain welfare ranking status in the form of decile.

"The parameter that we use to select prospective recipients, especially in this second stage, selects, reduces, adapting to the existing time is to use welfare rating data," explained Sarjoko.

In addition, there were also several KJP Plus recipients who were declared no longer meeting the criteria, so they were dropped from the distribution of KJP phase II 2024, namely: 1. Not included in the criteria for the poor and poor. 2. Resign on personal will. 3. Have a four-wheeled vehicle (car). 4. Own assets in the form of land or buildings with a selling value of tax objects (NJOP) above Rp 1 billion.5. Violating the prohibition as a recipient of KJP Plus social assistance.