Social Affairs Minister Gus Ipul: 40,000 PBI JKN Participants Have Applied for Reactivation
Jakarta, VIVA – The Ministry of Social Affairs (Kemensos) has recorded that more than 40,000 BPJS participants in the Contribution Assistance Recipients for National Health Insurance (PBI JKN) segment have applied for reactivation after their membership was previously deactivated.
This was conveyed by Social Affairs Minister Saifullah Yusuf, known as Gus Ipul, at a press conference following a restricted meeting with Coordinating Minister for Human Development Muhaimin Iskandar in Jakarta on Monday, 16 February 2026.
“More than 40,000 who have undergone the reactivation process are part of approximately 11 million participants who were deactivated,” said Gus Ipul.
Gus Ipul explained that of the tens of thousands of participants undergoing reactivation, approximately 2,000 have transitioned to become independent BPJS Health participants.
The ministry considers the PBI JKN participant data updating process to be proceeding productively in line with its objective of ensuring that government health contribution assistance reaches the poor and near-poor population, classified as Deciles 1–5 under the National Socio-Economic Unified Database (DTSEN).
Nevertheless, Gus Ipul emphasised that the government continues to conduct cross-checking and re-examination to ensure that each beneficiary’s membership status accurately reflects their socio-economic circumstances.
“Even though they have switched to the independent pathway, we still carry out cross-checks to determine whether they can continue independently or should eventually return to the PBI scheme,” said Gus Ipul.
He added that data updating and cross-checking processes are conducted on a monthly basis to improve the accuracy of the social assistance beneficiary database.
Previously, the Ministry of Social Affairs, through more than 30,000 Family Hope Programme (PKH) facilitators and teams from the Central Statistics Agency (BPS), conducted field verification of the 11 million PBI JKN participants who were deactivated.
The verification aimed to ascertain the actual socio-economic conditions of participants, whilst also serving as the basis for adjusting membership based on the DTSEN.
The Ministry of Social Affairs affirmed that the deactivation does not reduce the total number of assistance recipients but rather transfers membership from the financially capable population in Deciles 6–10 to the financially disadvantaged in Deciles 1–5, in accordance with local government proposals and data updating outcomes.