Coordinating Minister Says National Groundcheck of Health Insurance Subsidy Data Will Strengthen Nation's Social Foundation
The government has officially commenced a national groundcheck of data on recipients of subsidised National Health Insurance contributions (PBI-JKN) as part of a major reform of Indonesia’s social protection system. The initiative was announced by Coordinating Minister for Community Empowerment A. Muhaimin Iskandar following a cross-ministerial consolidation meeting at the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) offices in Jakarta on Thursday (19 February).
The groundcheck process targets 11 million individuals and is expected to be completed within two months. Its objective is to eliminate inclusion errors — recipients who are in fact financially capable — as well as exclusion errors, namely impoverished citizens who have not been registered at all.
“Tens of trillions of rupiah to be disbursed from the state budget through PBI must be accurately targeted, so that those who feel they are being called upon for mutual cooperation are genuinely an integral part of our efforts to help fellow citizens in need,” Muhaimin said in a written statement on Thursday.
The exercise involves the Ministry of Social Affairs, the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) and the Social Security Agency for Health (BPJS Kesehatan). Muhaimin stressed that data accuracy is the primary prerequisite for ensuring state budget allocations truly reach those most in need.
“We do not want any more overlapping data, policies that give rise to waste, or budgets that miss their mark due to unsynchronised data,” he added.
The national groundcheck forms part of the strengthening of the National Integrated Socio-Economic Database (DTSEN), established under Presidential Instruction No. 4 of 2025. The government views data rectification not merely as an administrative matter but as the foundation for more disciplined and sustainable budget governance.
Muhaimin also emphasised that participants with catastrophic illnesses whose membership had been deactivated are a primary concern. The protection of the most vulnerable groups’ fundamental rights was described as a non-negotiable foundation.
“Let us realise social protection as the spearhead of the state’s presence for its people. Let us properly facilitate all statistical partners and PKH social assistants, as well as all our personnel, to serve as direct links between the government’s systems and all layers of society,” he said.
He called on all ministries, agencies, regional governments and social assistants to set aside sectoral egos in favour of more robust coordination. Future social protection policy will rest upon a single integrated national database.
“This national groundcheck is a concrete moment to ensure that this nation is truly competent, that this nation is truly capable, and that this nation is truly not neglectful of all the needs of its people,” Muhaimin concluded.