JakartaGlobe-Mar 10
Home Affairs Minister Tito Karnavian said on Thursday that Indonesia would need to upgrade its civil registry data center as the country tries to adopt e-government based on the national ID numbers or locally known as the NIK.
According to Tito, the data center infrastructure at the Civil Registry Agency (Disdukcapil) has remained relatively the same since 2013. As the demand for NIK data grows, coupled with an expanding population, so does the need to upgrade the data center. “Our e-government is based on NIK. If we wish to embrace digital government, we would need to have a strong ‘backbone’, but it is not strong enough today. We need a powerful bandwidth, enough storage, and server, as well as a secure system,” Tito said at an anti-corruption forum in Jakarta on Thursday. “Our population is growing and many government bodies increasingly rely on the NIK data. Unfortunately, the budget for the civil registry keeps on shrinking,” Tito said. The NIK is the unique serial number at the very top of an Indonesian identity card. The Finance Ministry is one of the many government bodies that is using the ID number data, according to Tito.
The Finance Ministry is currently working on a single identification number scheme for taxpayers. By 2024, the NIK will entirely replace the tax identification cards (NPWP). In 2022, the civil registry agency recorded 199.78 million microchip-equipped, electronic identity cards. Read more at: https://jakartaglobe.id/tech/indonesia-needs-powerful-bandwidth-data-center-for-civil-registration
