HEAD of the DKI Jakarta Regional Financial Management Agency (BPKD) Michael Rolandi said that limited regional budget allocations were one of the causes of the Jakarta Superior Student Card (KJMU) polemic.
He explained that regional governments are required to allocate 20 percent of the APBD for education, 10 percent for health, 40 percent for infrastructure, 25 percent for personnel spending, and the rest for social assistance.
“The social assistance that we have issued so far is almost 20 percent. This (total allocation) has passed 100 percent. This means that we need to manage our budget limitations,” said Michael at the DKI Jakarta DPRD Commission E meeting at the DKI DPRD building, Central Jakarta, Thursday (14/3).
With calculations like that, Michael said the DKI Provincial Government decided to use a new mechanism in determining KJMU distribution.
The data source for determining KJMU recipients in the form of Integrated Social Welfare Data (DTKS) has been compared with Socio-Economic Registration (Regsosek) data issued by Bappenas.
Matching DTKS with Regsosek is done to find out the ranking of well-being (decile).
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The decile categories that still qualify as recipients of educational assistance include very poor (decile 1), poor (decile 2), almost poor (decile 3), and vulnerable to poverty (decile 4).
Meanwhile, KJMU recipient students who are now determined to be in the decile 5-10 category or who are considered well-off families have been removed from the list of recipients of social assistance for education costs.
Michael claims that this decile ranking is carried out so that KJMU continues to be distributed efficiently with more targeted data.
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“For example, there are 50 people who need help. I only have money for 20 people that can be funded by the APBD, from these 50 people I have to choose,” explained Michael.
“So the criteria for deciles 1 to decile 4 were set. That is the limit we can afford. If we have money for 50, then 50 of them we will provide assistance. But because there is no money, then we used deciles or combined and matched with Regsosek data, ” he continued.
Meanwhile, there are 19,042 KJMU recipients from 2023. Temporary matching, it is recorded that 771 of them are not eligible to receive KJMU. The DKI Provincial Government will continue to verify the suitability of the data until the distribution of KJMU phase 2 in 2024.
“We will update this data, we will adjust it. For the first semester, we will enter it first. Because the data is dynamic, later we can top up (the budget) in the APPD changes for what is approximately lacking or we can still add, ” he added. (Far/Z-7)
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