Single identity number launched

Single identity number launched

JAKARTA (JP): State-owned insurance company PT Jamsostek
signed an agreement on Friday with state-owned health insurance
firm PT Askes and six banks to provide a single identity number
facility for their customers as part of efforts to improve
services.

With the agreement, some 26 million workers participating in
Jamsostek's social security programs, 3.6 million civil servants
covered by Askes, and millions of bank customers and employees
will have a single identity number in their membership cards,
saving accounts, credit cards and ATM (automated teller machine)
cards.

The six state and private banks were Bank Mandiri, Bank Negara
Indonesia (BNI), Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI), Bank Bukopin, Bank
Muamalat and Bank Syariah Mandiri.

State Minister of State Enterprises Sugiharto, who witnessed
the signing ceremony, said the single identity number facility
would be integrated with the government-sponsored program to
issue single identity cards for people nationwide. --JP