Bandung City Government Ensures Residents Can't Be Enrolled in JKN KIS

For this reason, the Bandung City Government immediately registers and registers poor people into the Non-Wage Recipient Participant (PBPU) and Non-Worker (BP) segments or also known as PBPU-BP Pemda.

To support these efforts, the Bandung City Government held a meeting with a communication forum for the main stakeholders of the City of Bandung at City Hall, Wednesday, March 23, 2022.

At the meeting, it was revealed that there were still residents who had not been protected by the JKN program.

For example, in Arcamanik District there are as many as 10,285 residents who do not yet have the JKN Healthy Indonesia Card (KIS).

According to the Regional Secretary for the City of Bandung, Ema Sumarna, the Bandung City Government supports the JKN KIS program which is a national program. This program is managed by BPJS Health, then implements JKN KIS to the regions.

Head of BPJS Kesehatan Bandung Branch, Fakhriza, explained that it is important for people who do not have JKN to register immediately.

Registration can be done face to face or without face to face.

"For face-to-face contact, it can be through branch offices or city district offices, mobile customer service, or public service malls (MPP)," he said

"Without face-to-face through mobile JKN, report, interactive chatbot (CHIKA), website, care center 165, social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram)," he added.

For information, the government has paid the contributions of the participants who receive the contribution assistance with a quota of 96.8 million people in 2022. (asy)**

Head of Discominfo Bandung

Yayan A. Brilyana