Home Affairs Ministry Warns that Photocopying e-KTP Violates Personal Data Protection

The Directorate General (Ditjen) of Population and Civil Registration (Dukcapil) of the Ministry of Home Affairs (Kemendagri) has urged government institutions to cease photocopying electronic ID cards or e-KTP. Photocopying e-KTP is said to violate personal data protection (PDP).

As reported by detikNews, e-KTP is equipped with a chip system. There are devices that can be used to read e-KTP data.

“This is how it is: the utilisation of e-KTP cannot be done unilaterally by us from institutions related to Dukcapil. But the utilisation certainly involves user institutions. e-KTP is already equipped with advanced tools, a chip. That chip has the data in it,” said the Director General of Dukcapil at Kemendagri, Teguh Setyabudi, to reporters in Depok on Wednesday (6/5/2026).

“What is actually the case is that e-KTP no longer needs to be photocopied because it is actually a violation of PDP, really. But actually, to read e-KTP, there is a tool, a card reader for reading so that it no longer needs to be photocopied,” he added.

Teguh explained that Dukcapil has already urged all user institutions to stop applying photocopies of electronic ID cards.

“We have already urged all user institutions not to photocopy. But this might, with many responding regarding why e-KTP is photocopied. Later, it will raise awareness among all parties and will also encourage us to then request and invite user institutions,” he clarified.

Teguh also called for each institution to synergise for data integration interoperability. In the future, service data will be conducted system to system, not manually.

“Then for other institutions, let’s together synergise, collaborate for data integration, for data interoperability. Let’s do it together so that it becomes system to system, not manually anymore. For those who haven’t collaborated yet, let’s together carry out data matching with us,” he urged.

“And now, alhamdulillah, the government’s attention is so great; now there is the Committee for the Acceleration of Government Digital Transformation, there is DEN, there is Komdigi, Kemenmarves, there is Bappenas, BSSN. There is us from Kemendagri, and various related ministries and institutions together,” he continued.

Teguh hopes that collaboration between government and institutions can optimise the utilisation of electronic ID cards.

“Hopefully, with increasing synergy among those institutions, it will truly optimise the utilisation of e-KTP and also related to the utilisation of population data used for all purposes,” he concluded.