TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Indonesian Corruption Watch (ICW) reported the Jakarta Smart Card (KJP) program in 2013 had missed its target. The data shows that about 19.4 percent of the total 405,000 KJP recipients did not meet the requirements.
ICW's coordinator of public service monitoring division, Febri Hendri, said the target miss was due to improper data collection. Most of the requirements were not fully applied to the recipient students.
"There was no method to screen the KJP recipients," Febri said.
The head of Jakarta Education Agency, Lasro Marbun, said the report from ICW will be considered a feedback for future improvements. Lasro will prepare a more comprehensive monitoring system and will cooperate with Non-Governmental Organizations and media to improve the program. His institution will optimize Education Agencies at district levels and work with school supervisors.
"They will be assigned to check whether the applications match the real conditions. We also will review every application," said Febri.
In 2013, Lasro said 669 students were registered in the KJP program, taking US$64.9 million from the budget. This year, the budget for the KJP program will be increased to US$125 million.
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