Total 700,000 Bogor Residents has Not Yet Receive E-ID Cards

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - A total of 700,000 electronic ID cards (E-KTP) of Bogor residents are still restrained in the Ministry of Interior.  Whereas the process for e-KTP has been completed since last year.  For the time being, residents of Bogor still use regular ID cards.

“Not only e-ID cards of Bogor that are restrained in the Ministry of Interior, there are about 19 million e-ID cards throughout Indonesia still restrained there,” Head of Population and Civil Registration Department of Bogor District, R. Oetje Subagja, told Tempo in Cibinong on Monday, September 22.

Oetje said that from the 5.2 million residents of Bogor District, 1,600 of them possesses e-ID cards, or around 60 percent.  “It doesn’t mean that e-ID cards have not been issued, our people don’t have ID (identification) cards, so they still use the manual ones.”

The resident recording identity process, Oetje explained, is still being conducted.  Finger print and eye scanning are conducted in districts and the office of the Population and Civil Registration Department.

“Recordings are now conducted in three high schools.  Our hope is that all residents of Bogor District will have identities.  Identification Card is a citizen’s right.  We hope that the Ministry of Interior could quickly complete and submit the 700,000 e-ID cards that belong to the residents of Bogor,” Oetje said in a statement.

ARIHTA U. SURBAKTI