Minister of Social Affairs asks PKH assistants to visit 11 million PBI who have been deactivated

Social Minister Saifullah Yusuf is accompanied by BPS Head Amalia Adininggar/ANTARA

JAKARTA - The Minister of Social Affairs (Mensos) Saifullah Yusuf asked the accompanying Family Hope Program (PKH) throughout Indonesia to come directly in the field verification process for 11 million BPJS participants in the Health Insurance Contribution Assistance (PBI-JK) segment who were disabled.

"We will involve our assistants, who number more than 30 thousand, to help, ground check or field verification, to see the condition of each of the 11 million beneficiaries," said the Minister of Social Affairs, as reported by ANTARA, Thursday, February 12.

He explained that the field verification process was carried out to find out the actual socio-economic conditions of the disabled PBI beneficiaries. The verification process is targeted to be completed in the next two months.

Kemensos also confirmed that this deactivation did not reduce the number of recipients of assistance.

The goal, he said, is to shift the membership of PBI-JK from the able group in desil 6-10 National Social and Economic Single Data (DTSEN) to the group that is not able in desil 1-5 according to the proposal from the community and local government.

"This transfer process is not just happening now but has started since May 2025 and is being carried out gradually," he said.

Saifullah said that for the affected community, but still needs health services, they can reactivate quickly according to the applicable provisions and mechanisms.

In addition, to ensure that patients with chronic diseases do not lose access to treatment in the midst of the process of updating national data, as many as 106 thousand PBI-JK recipients with diseases that had been disabled due to changes in data have also been reactivated automatically.

"So the first thing we try to provide automatic reactivation is to the 106 thousand patients who have catastrophic diseases. Now it's automatic," he said.