Every Indonesian Citizen Born in RI to Automatically Become Active BPJS Participant

The government is accelerating the integration of birth services and BPJS Health membership into the INAku digital public services portal. Minister for Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform (PANRB) Rini Widyantini stated that this integration will unify fragmented health facilities from the Ministry of Health, the Civil Registry of the Ministry of Home Affairs, and BPJS. “Through the Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) approach, we can unite them into a single flow,” Rini said, quoted from a press release on Thursday (2/4/2026). The key to this integration, according to Rini, is using the Population Identification Number (NIK) as a validated single key, along with real-time data exchange between systems. This will simplify the process from eleven stages to four main stages, enabling newborns to immediately become active JKN participants. For her, this represents a concrete opportunity to integrate birth services with BPJS Health membership in INAku, with clear impacts such as reducing exclusion, increasing coverage, and facilitating health insurance services for the public. Through the INAku Citizen Portal, BPJS will not only rely on existing channels but also potentially reach over 200 million validated users via NIK and Digital Population Identity (IKD). This means every birth event can directly serve as an entry point for membership. “This will certainly increase coverage while systematically reducing the potential for exclusion. On the service side, the public will immediately experience a much simpler, faster, and integrated process, impacting satisfaction with BPJS services as part of government services,” Rini said. She emphasised that INAku can also serve as a strategic channel for BPJS to expand information dissemination and education to the public more broadly and targeted. “So, this integration not only simplifies processes but also strengthens BPJS’s positioning within the integrated digital public services ecosystem,” she stated. To realise this strategy, the INAku integration framework is designed as an enabler, not a replacement for existing systems in each agency. The portal acts as a front door connecting various services through DPI utilisation. “This means services like BPJS continue to run on their systems but are orchestrated into a complete service experience for the public. With this approach, integration can be done gradually according to service readiness, starting from information, interaction, to full integration,” Rini explained.