Minister says SBKRI not essential

Minister says SBKRI not essential

JAKARTA: Minister of Justice and Human Rights Yusril Ihza
Mahendra said bureaucrats at the lower level continued to ask
Chinese-Indonesians to produce the Indonesian Citizenship
Document (SBKRI) due to their lack of knowledge of the law.

Yusril said the ministry had not intensively promoted the
government policy that no longer requires Chinese-Indonesians to
present the SBKRI to apply for an identity card or passport.

"If they ask you, you have to tell them you don't need to
present the SBKRI as your grandfather already has it and just
show them your birth certificate," he said.

He said the SBKRI was only required by foreign nationals who
wish to pursue Indonesian citizenship for the first time. Their
children and grandchildren do not need the SBKRI. -- JP