"President Prabowo Subianto ordered all ministries and institutions to submit the data to Statistics Indonesia (BPS) for validation and becoming a single data," Social Affairs Minister Saifullah Yusuf informed in a statement released on Thursday.
As per the presidential instruction, his ministry is responsible for carrying out data updates through formal channels, such as hamlet officials, up to the DTSEN level.
In addition, data updates can be performed through a participatory channel via the Cek Bansos application. The application allows the submission of proposals to suggest or deny recipients of social assistance by attaching evidence, Yusuf informed.
"If the assistance is not right on target, it can be proven by attaching supporting documents," he added.
He informed that his ministry will use DTSEN data as the main capital to distribute social assistance for the next period.
Meanwhile, BPS head Amalia Widyasanti said that for the data-matching, the Coordinating Minister for Social Affairs, Minister of Social Affairs, Minister of PPN, and Minister of Home Affairs were consulted until the final result was obtained.
According to Widyasanti, data on 285 million single individuals has been recorded without any duplication along with that of 93 million legitimate heads of families (KK) based on Population and Civil Registration data.
She said that the data is not final and pointed to possible updates in the future.
Three main databases, namely DTKS, Socio-Economic Registration (Regsosek), and Targeting for the Acceleration of Extreme Poverty Eradication (P3KE), were integrated to form the DTSEN.
The data integration was cross-checked by BPS with the Population Administration Information System (SIAK) owned by the Ministry of Home Affairs to ensure data accuracy.
After the issuance of Presidential Instruction Number 4/2025 concerning DTSEN, the BPS submitted a single data-matching report to several ministries.
The final DTSEN report was signed by Yusuf, Widyasanti, Coordinating Minister for Community Empowerment, Abdul Muhaimin Iskandar, and Minister of National Development Planning (PPN), Rachmat Pambudy.
Translator: Hana Dewi, Resinta Sulistiyandari
Editor: Aditya Eko Sigit Wicaksono
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