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E-KTP Program Dogged by Lack of Equipment, Glitches
Dofa Fasila | September 06, 2011

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devine
8:13pm Sep 6, 2011

Roland; maybe it includes the 900% markup...


Roland
7:22pm Sep 6, 2011

Seven million two hundred and twenty three thousand to go.

At least the money is already paid out for it!

$766 Million for 7.3 Million people - I think there's something wrong? That would be more than $100 for each single e-KTP, or are the costs meant to be for the nation wide implementation?

I guess, 2013 will be the time when they can finally start to issue these cards (if the entire program will not be "forgotten", together with the money involved). Same as the costs for the implementation of the emission stickers for Jakarta's cars...these days nobody talks about it anymore!


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More than 26,000 people have been registered for new electronic identification cards despite the process being hampered by a lack of equipment.

Purba Hutapea, head of the Jakarta population office, said that 35 percent of the registry offices still had no equipment while 172 of the 267 offices in the capital had been under-equipped with the computer terminals, scanners and cameras needed. The cards, or e-KTP, are designed to prevent identity fraud and help authorities monitor migration.

“At 172 offices officials are serving applicants with only one computer. According to the plan, every urban ward should have at least two computers each,” he said on Tuesday.

Purba added that no Jakarta resident had received the new identity card yet as the Ministry of Home Affairs still has to process all of the applications before mass producing the e-KTPs. The population office still cannot say when people will receive their cards.

Sulistyo Prabowo, head of information technology at the population office, said that there are several urban ward offices that already had two computers to process applications like Menteng in Central Jakarta and Mampang and Cikoko, both in South Jakarta.

Sulistyo said that his office had been receiving complaints from several urban wards about glitches in the software used to process e-KTP applications adding that the ministry is still adjusting to the computer program.

Jakarta will serve as a pilot for the nationwide implementation of the e-KTP program. By the end of the year the government hopes to have collected the data of about 7.3 million residents.

Purba said that although the lack of equipment had hampered the registration process, urban wards which had not received equipment to process applications were instructed to press forward with the data collection process.

“So when all the necessary equipment has been delivered the other wards can catch up quickly. That way we can still reach our target this year,” he said.

Around 700 machines are needed to process the data and print the free cards. Each machine, which requires two people to operate, can handle information from 150 residents per day.

The bulk of funding for the program comes from the ministry — which has allocated Rp 6.6 trillion ($766 million) for the project.