Head of National PKK, Dr. Erni Guntari Tjahyo Kumolo with PKK Surakarta
109 PKK Cadres in Surakarta Support Good Procedures for Population Administration
Surakarta city was chosen to be the pilot location for Family Welfare Empowerment(Pemberdayaan Kesejahteraan Keluarga/PKK) Training on Civil Registration. The training was attended by 109 PKK cadre members. It was conducted in two phases, which were between January 26 to 28, and January 29 to 31 January 2015 in Hotel Novotel Solo. The training was opened by The Head ofthe National PKK, Dr. Erni Guntari Tjahyo Kumolo.
Head of National PKK, Dr. Erni Guntari Tjahyo Kumolo with PKK Surakarta
The training began in earnest with the Directorate General for Policy Harmonization and Population Planning (Penyerasian Kebijakan dan Perencanaan Kependudukan/PKPK) - Ministry of Home Affairs (MOHA), Directorate General of Population and Civil Registration (Kependudukan dan Pencatatan Sipil/Dukcapil) - Ministry of Home Affairs, The National Empowerment Family (Pemberdayaan Kesejahteraan Keluarga/PKK), as well as the Government of Surakarta, in collaboration with the Center on Child Protection (Pusat Kajian Perlindungan Anak/PUSKAPA) - University of Indonesia, and Australia Indonesia Partnership for Justice (AIPJ).
The training aimed to improve PKK cadre members ‘understanding of the importance of legal identity, especially for women and children. Ownership of legal identity, especially birth certificate, is an important requirement for people to be able to access basic services and social protection.
However, based on the National Economic and Social Survey (SUSENAS) 2013, only 52% of Indonesian children between 0-17 years have a birth certificate. In other words, nearly half of the Indonesia’s children do not have a birth certificate. The 2013 Baseline Study on access to Legal Identity conducted by AIPJ, PUSKAPA and Empowerment of Women Headed Households (PEKKA) identified three major obstacles for the public in obtaining legal identity documents. Such obstacles are distances to the place of service, high costs, and impression of complexity procedures to process legal identity documents due to limited information available.
In the end, lack of access to legal identity decreased opportunities to find proper livelihoods for those who are poor and marginalized.
PUSKAPA Staff facilitate a session on Disability Sensitivity
"The involvement of PKK cadre members in supporting good population administration and civil registration is important, given that PKK cadres are part of society and families. They can bridge the information dissemination on the importance of legal identity document and how to process it," said Djoko Moersito, PKPK Director of MOHA in the middle the training.
Surakarta city has implemented many innovations related to improving services for ownership of legal identity documents. They include cooperations with hospitals for birth registration and the provision of Child Incentive Cards (Kartu Insentif Anak, or KIA) for children who have birth certificates. KIA can then be used to get discounts and promotions from various companies in the City of Surakarta. Additionally, the City Government of Surakarta has conducted integrated mobile services to issue birth certificates through collaboration with PKK women and Karang Taruna (Youth Clubs) to conduct data collection at local level.
The City Government of Surakarta has established the Regional Regulation of the Population Administration, including Regional Regulation No.6/2002 on the implementation of population registration and civil registration certificate; Regional Regulation No.8 / 2003 on the removal of all provision costsforissuance of birth certificates; Regional Regulation No.10 / 2010 and Mayor's Letter No.470/158 on the removal of all provision costsfor issuance of civil registration documents.
Nationally, MOHA has also revised the Population Administration Law with Law No.24/2013 that stipulates that there must be simplicity for public when they registeran event. For instance,legalizing birth certificates that are beyond the one year limit should no longer requirea court decision. Civil certificates can now be issued at the place of residence, and regional governments are now obliged to implement an active system for conducting civil registration.
[Credit to Citra - Puskapa]
