Data on Indonesian Citizens' Social Assistance in DTSEN Updated Six Times, Here Are the Results

Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia - The Central Statistics Agency (BPS) has carried out updates to the National Single Social and Economic Data (DTSEN) six times since February 2025 until April 2026. Deputy Head of BPS Indonesia, Sonny Harry Budiutomo Harmadi, revealed that BPS has only been able to update 90% of the DTSEN, which was previously collected from the 2015 DTKS and the 2022 Regsosek. “As of 8 April yesterday, the DTSEN has been updated and was handed over by the BPS Chief to the Social Affairs Minister yesterday,” Sonny stated. From the results of the latest update, the DTSEN now covers 95.30 million families from 289.3 million individual population records in Indonesia. Meanwhile, the update percentage has reached 17.51%. The DTSEN consists of individual records and family records. However, the DTSEN also includes data on individuals and families who do not reside in Indonesia. Furthermore, there are individual data for those who have passed away but are unconfirmed, and individuals with duplicate NIKs. Additionally, the DTSEN coverage includes ground checks by the Ministry of Social Affairs, LPG, BPJS TK, PBI Health BPJS, and data from several regional governments such as Gianyar, Surabaya, and Central Halmahera. Previously, the Head of the Central Statistics Agency (BPS), Amalia Adininggar Widyasanti, explained that the results of the DTSEN Volume 2 update for 2026 are divided into family records and individual records. There are changes in the update results between version 1 and version 2; the family records previously recorded 95.0 million families, increasing to 95.3 million families in version 2. Meanwhile, individual records from previously 289.0 million individuals became 289.3 million individuals in version 2. “We have updated this, finding around 314 thousand deceased based on SIAK, and during our ground checks, we also found 356 thousand deceased. But there are also newborns, those who reactivated their NIK and family cards, so the net is as I mentioned earlier,” she said. Amalia added that based on the results of this DTSEN update, BPS also found 11,014 inclusion errors among Beneficiary Families (KPM), who are social assistance recipients in deciles 5 and above. “We found inclusion errors of only 11,014 (KPM) or 0.06 percent of the first-quarter social assistance recipients. Where the total first-quarter social assistance recipients are 18.15 million families,” she concluded.