MP Urges JKN PBI Participants to Check Membership Status

Blora (ANTARA) - Member of the Indonesian House of Representatives Commission IX, Edy Wuryanto, stated that verification for reactivating eight million data records of recipients under the JKN PBI programme, which were previously inactive, is still ongoing. “We urge the public to immediately check their membership status to ensure whether they are still registered or not,” Edy said in Blora, Central Java, on Wednesday. He explained that out of a total of 11 million previously inactive data records, more than two million have been successfully reactivated in the last three months. Meanwhile, the remainder are still in the process of verification and validation. “We are conducting ground checks together with the Ministry of Social Affairs, BPS, and district social services to ensure whether these eight million data records are still eligible for assistance or not,” Edy stated. Decile groups 1 to 5 are considered still eligible for assistance and need to be reactivated as PBI. In contrast, deciles 6 to 10 are deemed capable and can be proposed for exclusion from membership. On the other hand, for the public who are not yet active but need health services, the government provides a temporary solution through the Certificate of Inability to Afford (SKTM) issued by local governments. Nevertheless, Edy reminded that the capacity of the Regional Revenue and Expenditure Budget (APBD) to cover such needs is becoming increasingly limited, especially with the decline in Regional Financial Transfers (TKD). Regarding the discourse on using MBG funds to support health services, he explained that the allocation of those funds is locked in the state budget (APBN) and can only be changed through revisions to the law. As for the issue of people with incomes below the Regional Minimum Wage (UMR) but categorised as capable, according to him, it falls under the authority of BPS and the Ministry of Social Affairs through the classification mechanism in the DTKS.