Speaker A
People who want to receive social assistance through digital social protection need to know and pay attention to the data that the system will check. The government is currently testing a digital social protection system to assess the eligibility of those registering as prospective social assistance recipients. This system uses the principle of data interoperability, meaning people do not need to upload various documents to prove their circumstances. The digital social protection piloting coordinator from the Committee for the Acceleration of Digital Transformation, Rahmat Danu Andika, emphasized that data will be checked in real-time through several related government systems upon registration. So, what data will be checked? The first data to be checked is the community decile. For the Family Hope Program (PKH) and the food assistance program, the criteria currently used are households in deciles 1 to 4. This data is checked directly with the Central Statistics Agency or BPS. The system will also check employment status through data from the State Civil Service Agency or BKN. Civil servant status serves as one of the filters in the eligibility assessment. Currently, social assistance recipients cannot hold civil servant status. Another data point checked is employment social security (BPJS Ketenagakerjaan) membership status. However, it does not check all BPJS Ketenagakerjaan participants. The system will check if there are any participants within the applicant's family with the status of wage earners. Wage-earning participants are workers who receive a salary from a company with BPJS Ketenagakerjaan contributions paid by the employer. There is currently a wage threshold used in that filter. Those with a wage above 1.082 million rupiah per month will be deemed ineligible based on this filter. Personal vehicle ownership, specifically four-wheeled vehicles, will also go through a verification process. The system will check vehicle ownership data through the traffic police corps. The filter currently used is the ownership of a four-wheeled vehicle. Electricity consumption data is one of the filters used to assess eligibility. The system will check household electricity consumption and power capacity. One of the current limits used is electricity consumption above 41 kWh per capita and power capacity above 900 VA. However, higher power capacity does not automatically make someone ineligible because the system also considers electricity consumption per capita. Additionally, land certificate ownership will also be subject to verification. This data will be checked through the database of the Ministry of Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning and the National Land Agency or BPN. It should be noted that all these filters are still in the testing phase. The government is still accepting input and will conduct evaluations ahead of the determination of beneficiaries for the Family Hope Program (PKH) and non-cash food assistance (BPNT) in 2027. According to Rahmat, these filters were created to reduce exclusion and inclusion errors in social assistance distribution via the digital social protection system. When people register, their data will be checked in real-time through integrated government systems. The results will show whether the applicant falls into the potentially eligible or ineligible category based on the filters used. So those are the six data points currently checked in the Digital Perlinsos system to assess the eligibility of social assistance applicants.
