Photocopying ID Cards Violates the Law: Check the Government's Warning

The habit of photocopying important documents for various purposes continues, including the duplication of e-KTPs. However, the Directorate General of Dukcapil of the Ministry of Home Affairs has urged government agencies to no longer use photocopies of e-KTPs.

The Director General of Dukcapil of the Ministry of Home Affairs, Teguh Setyabudi, explained that the public’s data is already stored in the chip embedded in the e-KTP, which can be read with a special device.

He urged government agencies not to photocopy ID cards, as this constitutes a violation of personal data protection.

“The use of e-KTPs cannot be done unilaterally by us from the agency related to Dukcapil. But the use of it certainly involves an agency. The e-KTP is equipped with sophisticated tools, a chip. The chip contains the data,” said Teguh, quoted from Detik.com, a while ago.

“In fact, e-KTPs no longer need to be photocopied because that is actually a violation of personal data protection. But in reality, there is a device to read the e-KTP, a card reader, so there is no need to photocopy it anymore,” he added.

Dukcapil has urged all agencies not to implement the photocopying of ID cards. He also asked each agency to carry out data matching.

This way, service data is not processed manually, but through a system-to-system process.

“And now, thank God, the government’s attention is so great. Now there is the Committee for Accelerating the Digital Transformation of Government, there is DEN, there is Komdigi, Kemenmarves, there is Bappenas, BSSN. There is us from the Ministry of Home Affairs, and various related ministries and agencies are working together,” Teguh added.

Teguh hopes that the collaboration between the government and agencies can make the use of ID cards even more optimal.

“Hopefully, with the increasing synergy of these agencies, it will truly optimize the use of e-KTPs and also related to the use of population data for all purposes,” he explained.

For information, Indonesia also has the Law on Personal Data Protection or the PDP Law Number 27 of 2022, which contains a prohibition on the dissemination of personal data in Article 65. Those who violate it, Article 67 states that there are sanctions of imprisonment for five years or a fine of IDR 5 billion.