DPR Highlights Unrecognizable PBI Data, BPJS Participants Pay IDR 100 Million Uninhabitable To Receive Subsidies

Illustration of BPJS Kesehatan (Between)

JAKARTA - Deputy Chairman of Commission IX of the Indonesian House of Representatives, Yahya Zaini, highlighted the findings of BPJS Health participants earning up to Rp. 100 million per month, but still receiving dues from the state. Yahya emphasized that updating data on Contribution Assistance Recipients (PBI) will certainly be carried out immediately.

Yahya stated that the DPR RI has a responsibility to ensure that service standards run well. Therefore, updating of participant data must be carried out periodically and based on data integration across ministries and institutions.

"Data updating is absolutely necessary. PBI criteria must also be determined in a precise manner according to the latest socio-economic conditions, while verification and validation systems need to be implemented accurately and transparently," Yahya told reporters, Thursday, November 20.

As is known, Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin revealed that there are a number of high-income people, even up to more than Rp. 100 million per month who are still registered as participants in PBI BPJS Kesehatan. In fact, participants with such economic capabilities should no longer receive subsidies.

Based on the National Sole Social and Economic Data (DTSEN), there are around 10.84 million people registered as PBI recipients but not among the groups that should have been targeted. The capable group is included in the decile category 6 to 10, while PBI should be intended for people who are in decile 1 to 5.

Related to this, Yahya emphasized that the principle of justice must be the main basis for implementing social security. "State assistance should not be given uniformly, but must be directed at those who really have the right to be right on target, right on benefits, and right on data," he said.

He also considered this finding as an indication that national social security management still has a gap, especially in updating and verifying the data of PBI participants. "This finding is not just an administrative anomaly, but shows that there are structural loopholes in the participant data system and verification. Target accuracy is not only important, but is the foundation for BPJS Kesehatan sustainability," said Yahya.

The leadership of the DPR commission in charge of health and social security affairs also emphasized the importance of strengthening the national data system and accelerating data interoperability between BPJS Kesehatan, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Social Affairs, Ministry of Finance, and local governments. According to Yahya, this step is absolutely necessary to close the potential for irregularities and misallocation of aid.

"We want to ensure that social security governance meets national standards that ensure program sustainability and protection for vulnerable communities," said the legislator from the East Java VIII electoral district.

Yahya also ensured that all inputs and public unrest related to the inaccuracy of BPJS subsidies would be part of the evaluation in meetings to discuss regulations and supervision of the government. He said the DPR would oversee this matter.

"Public aspirations are not only recorded, but are an integral part of improving social security policies," he concluded.