Many KJP Recipients Excluded Due To Insufficient Funds, DKI DPRD: We Are Praised For The Largest Budget, I'm Shame If It Goes Viral

JAKARTA - Member of Commission E of the DKI Jakarta DPRD, Abdul Aziz, questioned the ranks of the DKI Jakarta Education Office and related to 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.

In the recognition of the DKI Education Office, there was a limited budget for the distribution of KJP funds for phase II 2024, so the number of recipients of the education assistance had to be reduced.

Jakarta is the province with the largest regional budget (APBD) in Indonesia. In fact, in 2025, the DKI APBD was set at IDR 91 trillion. Aziz could not understand the decision of the DKI Provincial Government to cross out hundreds of thousands of KJP recipients.

"We in DKI Jakarta, every day the most budget is praised, praised with a budget of IDR 91 trillion. I am ashamed if this goes viral, reducing the education budget for the poor, which amounts to thousands," Aziz said in a meeting at the DKI Jakarta DPRD building, Monday, December 23.

This year is indeed a political year. Jakarta and other provinces are led by the governor's acting (pj) to fill the vacant position until the inauguration of the definitive governors and deputy governors as a result of the 2024 Pilkada.

Aziz suspects that the DKI Provincial Government is not working to manage the budget optimally in the midst of the transition of regional head leadership, so the problem of revocation of KJP due to budget shortages is still happening.

"I'm afraid this will be an opportunity, because we just make this transition to power policy to save. Even though we are not here to save the budget, but to release it all for education for the future of our country," said Aziz.

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.

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.