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National scene: ‘Smart Card’ distribution faces hurdles
Students in many areas of the country still have not received their Indonesian Smart Card (KIP) due to administrative problems, Hamid Muhammad, the Education and Culture Ministry’s director general of elementary and secondary education, said on Tuesday
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tudents in many areas of the country still have not received their Indonesian Smart Card (KIP) due to administrative problems, Hamid Muhammad, the Education and Culture Ministry’s director general of elementary and secondary education, said on Tuesday.
Hamid said that of 17.9 million targeted beneficiaries in 2016, the government had been able to distribute 17.4 million smart cards.
“However, the problem is that from the 17.4 million smart cards sent out, approximately 10 to 20 percent have not been received by students,” he told reporters at the Culture and Education Ministry in Senayan, South Jakarta.
The ministry blamed two vendors they say were responsible for the distribution of the cards: PT. Satria Antaran Prima and PT. Dexter Expressindo. “The agreement between the Education and Culture Ministry and the delivery service providers states that the cards should be sent to the recipients addresses,” he said.
He claimed that based on an evaluation in the field, village officials said the vendors had just sent the cards to the districts or villages, not to the targeted households.
