Citizens Storm Decile Complaint Post, Claiming Data Does Not Reflect Reality

Residents have voiced complaints regarding decile data, which is deemed to be inconsistent with their actual economic conditions. Several citizens claimed to have lost access to the Program Indonesia Pintar (PIP) and Kartu Jakarta Pintar (KJP) due to these data discrepancies.

Citizens visited the Decile Complaint Post at Bumi Pospera, Jakarta, on Monday (21/09/2026). The People’s Struggle Post (Posko Perjuangan Rakyat) established the complaint centre to inventory data from residents whose assigned decile status does not align with their social and economic realities.

The post serves as a venue for citizens to raise issues regarding decile data, which they link to their access to various government programmes. Many residents complained that they are unable to receive PIP and KJP benefits because of their current decile position.

According to organisers, some residents with low economic status are instead recorded in higher decile categories. One housewife shared that her family is recorded in decile 6; despite her husband working as a street musician and having a child in school, the family is ineligible for PIP or KJP.

One of the key components in the DTKS (Integrated Social Welfare Data) is the decile, which is a grouping of families based on their relative level of welfare. Families are ranked according to various socio-economic characteristics and then divided into ten groups.

Decile 1 represents the group with the lowest relative level of welfare, while decile 10 represents the group with the highest relative level of welfare.