The Riau Islands Provincial Government Intensives Population Data Update For Preparations For The 2024 General Election

Head of the Department of Community Empowerment, Villages, Population, and Civil Registration of Riau Islands Province Misni. (Photo: Doc. Antara)

TANJUNGPINANG - The Riau Islands Provincial Government (Pemprov) intensively updated population data ahead of the 2024 General Election (Pemilu).

Head of the Riau Islands Province Population, Village, Population and Civil Registration Service, Misni, said the updating of population data includes the removal of the population identification number (NIK) on behalf of the deceased residents and changes to the population data of the e-KTP according to the condition of the owner of the identity card.

"Data on potential voters in the 2024 General Election will be submitted by the Ministry of Home Affairs to the Indonesian KPU on December 10, 2022," he said, given by Antara in Tanjungpinang, Sunday, November 20.

Misnis said the district and city Population and Civil Registry Office provided a funeral textbook to record the people who died. The book is held by funeral officials.

Based on this data, he said, the district and city population offices would delete the NIK of people who had died.

Regarding the change in population data at the ID card, he said, the central government has created an integrated system to facilitate data collection without going through RT and RW, for example residents who move to regencies and cities or other provinces do not have to report to RT and RW but simply report to the Population Service in their new area.

Population Service officers will 'input' the latest data through e-office, then coordinate with the Population Service as long as the residents come from.

"In the past, you had to report RT or RW so that the bureaucracy was long. Now it is enough to report to the Population Service in the new area where the residents live," he said.

Misni said the population data publication system is now centralized through the system. Local governments can only publish data every semester that has been validated, although daily and month reports are routinely given to the center.

Publication of population data, he said, aims to make the data submitted by the central and regional governments to the public the same.

"For example, the population data that we can convey today is the first semester of 2022 data because the second semester of 2022 data can only be published in January 2023," he said.

The number of Riau Islands residents in Semester I 2022 reached 2,101,215 people, 1,470,195 of whom were required to have an ID card.

"Until now, the number of residents who have recorded is 1,460,078 people," he said.