“We are currently still in decile 6, and today we are processing the decile reduction. Because if we are in decile 6, we cannot get the KIP Kuliah (Smart Indonesia Card for Higher Education), even though my family can be…
Key points: In the recent rush toward Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI), we often succumb to the technocratic allure of viewing state digitization as a seamless, purely clinical, and frictionless upgrade to the social contract. However, the rollout of Indonesia’s Identitas…
Indonesia is currently undergoing one of the largest digital identity transformations in the developing world. By linking the Identitas Kependudukan Digital (IKD) with central social welfare databases, the state aims to eliminate systemic leakages. This analytical piece evaluates the narrative…