Proposal for Fines on Lost IDs, Doli Kurnia Alludes to Single Identity

The Ministry of Home Affairs (Kemendagri) has put forward a proposal for fines on citizens who lose their electronic resident identity cards (e-KTP). Ahmad Doli Kurnia Tandjung, a member of Commission II of the House of Representatives from the Golkar Party faction, has questioned this proposal.

The proposal emerged during discussions on the planned revision of Law No. 24 of 2013 on Population Administration (Adminduk), being deliberated jointly with Commission II of the House of Representatives at the House building in Senayan, Jakarta, on Monday (20/4/2026). Deputy Minister of Home Affairs Bima Arya explained that many citizens lack responsibility in maintaining their population documents.

“There are many citizens who are not very responsible about using or maintaining their ID cards and other population identities, so they easily get lost and so on. If they want to make a new one, it’s free,” said Bima Arya.

In response to the plan, Doli said that the law should be made as perfect as possible to improve the entire population administration system in our country.

The system that will eventually need to be integrated with all systems related to data and information. For example, continued Doli, at present we are also working on the Indonesian Single Data Law. Both of these laws and other related laws must be synchronised.

“Furthermore, the law must give birth to a system that can also unite all personal data into just one identity number. We must already be able to implement a single identity number system for every Indonesian citizen,” said Doli.

According to him, personal data in the future could be in digital form only. Thus, there will be no more stories of loss or fines.

“So, in the future, our identities no longer need to be in physical form, they must be digital/electronic based (paperless). If everything is digital, there will be no more stories of loss, and automatically there will be no more fines,” said Doli.