“By the middle of this year, all the e-ID cards must be distributed to all eligible residents so that the electronic data can be used for the upcoming 2014 elections,” said Minister of Home Affairs Gamawan Fauzi.
He accepted that the government exceeded its 2012 targets for the e-ID card project with this progress.
According to the 2010 national census, the population of Indonesia is 237.6 million, living on 17,508 islands.
The E-ID cards project was launched in August 2011 to issue citizens with identity cards that store biometrics and biodata. The initiative is as part of the government’s effort to remove duplication and errors in the national population database that arose from the previous paper-based identification system.
The project costs IDR 5.8 trillion (US$601.04 million) and the new database can be accessed by different ministries, which will help improve the accuracy of voters’ registry for elections and support social welfare programme.
Dr Husni Fahmi, Chief of Subdirectorate Population Database Administration & Leader of Technical Team e-ID project told FutureGov that the completion of the e-ID programme will allow the government to run e-government services more effectively and efficiently.
Dr Fahmi and is e-ID project won FutureGov Awards 2012 in Information Management. “We aim to build an accurate demographic data and issue a single e-ID card to citizens.”
He added that the e-ID project is a nationwide programme supported by stakeholders, namely the central government, Parliament, Government, and Society executive Consortium, to realize accurate population data base and a unique identity.
Enrollment for the e-ID cards records biodata, photo, signature, ten fingerprints and iris. Unique identification of citizens is performed using multimodal biometrics identification system that includes fingerprint, iris, and face. The identification process of 1:N matching is centralised at the national data centre of Home Affairs Ministry in Jakarta.
Last year, the enrollment stations were installed in 497 regencies and 6,448 sub districts, in which all are connected through a virtual private network for transmitting enrollment data to the data centre. Enrollment can be done either online or offline.
The data centre in Jakarta and the multimodal biometreics identification system have been deployed to store and identify 172,015,400 records with the same number of e-ID cards for printing. Each ID card costs IDR 33,961.47 (US$3.70).
After the ending of the mass enrollment, each regency will be provided with a card printer for regular enrollment in 2013.
Dr Fahmi said that the next step of the e-ID project is to develop a national information framework that will use the national population database for development planning, healthcare, education, and for other social programmes that would benefit the citizens.
Also, the new national ID cards will “improve public services and interface the data in the card chip with public services systems,” he added.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Thanya Kunakornpaiboonsiri
Quelle/Source: futureGov, 10.01.2013
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