Bima Arya Clarifies Fine for Lost e-KTP: It's Actually the Cost of Reprinting

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - Deputy Minister of Home Affairs (Wamendagri) Bima Arya Sugiarto has provided clarification regarding the proposal for citizens who lose their KTP to pay a fine.

Bima Arya stated that what he meant was actually the cost of reprinting the KTP, not a fine.

“The issue that was criticised is the word ‘fine’, right? Fine. Actually, what was meant is the cost of a new print. So the first one is free, but for a new print, a fee is charged, something like that. The cost of a new print,” Bima Arya told reporters on Thursday (23/4/2026).

Bima Arya explained that he had received reports of many citizens reprinting KTPs due to loss.

He revealed that the cost to print one KTP is Rp 10,000, which is borne by the state.

“So if, for example, there are about 1.5 million citizens who lose them across Indonesia, then at least Rp 15 billion would be spent on that. Meanwhile, the budget at the Ministry of Home Affairs is also limited,” said Bima Arya.

Bima Arya reminded that local government budgets are also limited, as they need to build schools, bridges, and so on.

“So there is a cost for the second print, so that citizens can take care of it. If I’m not mistaken, for a driver’s licence, if it’s lost, you pay to reprint it too. So this needs to be understood in the overall context, something like that,” he added.

Previously, Deputy Minister of Home Affairs Bima Arya Sugiarto proposed that citizens who lose their KTP should be fined when they want to reprint it.

According to Bima, the policy needs to be considered to encourage public responsibility in maintaining population documents.

“There are many citizens who are not very responsible about using or maintaining their KTP and other identity documents. So they lose them easily and so on, and when they want to make a new one, it’s free,” Bima said during a working meeting with Commission II of the DPR RI on population administration supervision, on Monday (20/4/2026).

Reports of lost KTPs are said to reach tens of thousands of cases in one day.

“So it needs to be considered so that citizens can be more responsible by requiring them to pay the full cost, a fine or something like that. Because every day, how many reports of losses are there, Mr Teguh (Director General of Dukcapil)? Tens of thousands. Tens of thousands, because it’s free. So this is also a cost centre here,” he said.