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Fri, 06/01/2012 - 09:42
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Minister Says: Some 80 Million Residents Own E-KTP

Batam, Riau Islands, Jun 1 (ANTARA) - Home Affairs minister Gamawan Fauzi has said that approximately 80 million people of Indonesia have completed their electronic identification cards (e-KTP). "There has been approximately 80 million people who have completed the process, and a portion of those people have received their e-KTP," said Fauzi in a meeting for the coordination of population for the Islands of Riau at Planet Holiday Hotel here on Thursday night. The minister stated that since May, there have been 5 provinces which have completed their implementation program for e-KTP including Yogyakarta, South Sumatra, Aceh and Bangka Belitung. "Several other regions are also completing their program, hopefully by mid-June we would have processed 85 million residents," he said. In comparison to several other countries that have already implemented the e-KTP program such as Germany, Netherlands, China and India, Indonesia is one of the fastest in it`s implementation, said the Minister Germany,with a population of 70 million,needed up to 6 years to conduct the e-KTP program, the minister revealed. "Within several months, Indonesia has been able to reach 80 million people. Our aim is to have 172 million e-KTP processed before the end of 2012. That is a very short time frame," he said. Fauzi has asked regions to implement the program seriously so that at the end of 2012, all regions would have finished conducting the e-KTP process. "If everyone is committed, it is not impossible to have the whole process finished before the end of the year," he claimed. The meeting , attended by Deputy Governor for the Island of Riau ,Soerya Respationo, and regents and mayors from Riau Island, awarded Bintan Regency and Tanjungpinang regency for completing their e-KTP program. The award was accepted by the Bintan regent, Ansar Ahmad, and the Mayor of Tanjungpinang, Suryatati A Manan.

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