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Hidayat Nur Wahid urges DTSEN update to prevent KIP Kuliah aid from being cut off

From Republika · () Indonesian

Translated from Indonesian and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Hidayat Nur Wahid urged the government to update the National Single Data on Social and Economic Conditions to protect eligible students’ KIP Kuliah assistance.
  • He said changes in socioeconomic decile rankings should not automatically end aid before officials verify families’ actual circumstances.
  • He called for transition protections, accessible complaints channels and university support for affected students.

Hidayat Nur Wahid, deputy speaker of Indonesia’s People’s Consultative Assembly, is urging authorities to prevent administrative data changes from forcing vulnerable students out of higher education. He called for an update of the National Single Data on Social and Economic Conditions, known as DTSEN, after receiving complaints about inaccurate socioeconomic decile rankings.

Nur Wahid said changes in a family’s decile status could stop KIP Kuliah assistance even when the student still needed support. He argued that the ranking is a relative measure of socioeconomic conditions, not the only measure of a family’s welfare, and should be checked against its actual circumstances.

He cited families facing job losses, prolonged illness, disasters, large numbers of dependents or rising living costs as cases that could be wrongly classified by a change in the system. “The state must not allow administrative problems to cut off the hopes of the nation’s children to continue their higher education,” he said.

The state must not allow administrative problems to cut off the hopes of the nation’s children to continue their higher education.

— Hidayat Nur WahidHe argued that data problems should not deprive financially vulnerable students of access to university.

Nur Wahid called on the Ministry of Social Affairs, the Central Statistics Agency, the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology, and universities to establish transition protections. He also requested accessible complaint channels, clear resolution deadlines and campus assistance for students whose records do not reflect their real financial conditions.

He said universities should be allowed to submit socioeconomic verification to the government while protecting personal data. KIP Kuliah aid, he added, should not stop until field verification and an appeals process have finished. Central Statistics Agency chief Amalia Adininggar Widyasanti had previously said people could challenge their decile data through official channels.

Students from vulnerable families must not be forced to stop studying because the system is not yet able to understand the reality of their lives.

— Hidayat Nur WahidHe called for human verification, appeals and continued protection for active students.
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Originally published by Republika in Indonesian. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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