Tito: NTT Earthquake Victims Can Reprint Important Documents for Free
Home Affairs Minister Muhammad Tito Karnavian has tasked the Directorate General of Population and Civil Registration (Dukcapil) with helping residents who lost or suffered damage to their civil registration documents as a result of the earthquake in Nusa Tenggara Timur (NTT).
The move is intended to speed up the reissuance of a number of important documents, such as electronic identity cards (KTP-el), birth certificates and family cards (KK).
“I will immediately instruct the Director General of Dukcapil, who handles population data matters, to coordinate with the district and provincial Dukcapil offices,” Tito said after visiting the evacuation post in Waekokak Village, Aesesa District, Nagekeo Regency, NTT, on Tuesday (18/8).
Tito said services would not only be provided through Dukcapil offices. Dukcapil teams would also be deployed directly to affected locations to help residents process documents that had been lost or damaged.
According to him, reissuing civil registration documents is relatively easy because population data is already stored digitally on the Dukcapil server at the Ministry of Home Affairs.
Moreover, the Directorate General of Dukcapil has adopted face recognition technology that can assist with verifying people’s identities.
“[Reprinting] is very easy to do. Why? Because all the data that exists, for 290 million [people in] Indonesia, almost 98 per cent of it is on the Ministry of Home Affairs server, Dukcapil Kemendagri,” he explained.
In addition to civil registration documents, Tito said he would coordinate with the Minister of Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning/National Land Agency (ATR/BPN) to reprint land certificates and other important documents.
He will also communicate with the police to reprint vehicle ownership books (BPKB), vehicle registration certificates (STNK) and driving licences (SIM) specifically for earthquake victims in NTT.
“I will convey the information to the Minister of ATR/BPN and also to the police. Because, as happened in Aceh, in North Sumatra and West Sumatra, all three of us went down. These are important documents,” he explained.
Home Affairs Minister Tito assured that the reprinting of these important documents would be carried out free of charge as evidence of the state’s presence for earthquake survivors.
“People who are already in difficulty should not be made to suffer more; we will help. And I will also convey this to the National Police Chief,” he concluded.