KJP Plus: Jakarta's School Allowance Card

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Cross-checking the benefit roll against vehicle and property records stripped 105,225 pupils of their school allowance in late 2024. Councillors had all of them reinstated in January 2025.

Outcome🔄 Ongoing

Evidence🏛️ Official

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Run byDinas Pendidikan Provinsi DKI Jakarta, with Bank Jakarta (formerly Bank DKI)

Scale🏙️ City-wide

CostRp3.2 trillion per year (2025 programme budget)

FundingJakarta provincial budget

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KJP Plus pays a monthly school allowance onto a Bank Jakarta card instead of in cash: Rp250,000 for primary pupils, Rp450,000 for vocational students, of which only Rp100,000 may be withdrawn. The rest must be spent at registered merchants on uniforms, books and school supplies. Eligibility is means-tested against the national welfare registry and cross-checked against the city tax agency's vehicle and property records. That matching stripped 105,225 pupils of their cards in late 2024 — 15,545 owned a car or property above Rp1 billion, the other 89,680 ranked in welfare deciles six to ten. Councillors had all of them reinstated in January 2025.

Live 📅 since 2018

📊 Impact

707,622 pupils received KJP Plus in 2025 on a Rp3.2 trillion budget, up from Rp2.5 trillion in 2024; the first 2026 tranche paid Rp1.62 trillion to 707,477 pupils from 5 March 2026.

🎓 Lesson

Matching a benefits roll against tax and asset registries finds ineligible recipients quickly, and produces a political reversal just as quickly.

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Sources

↗ JDIH DKI Jakarta — Governor Regulation 4/2018 on Kartu Jakarta Pintar PlusLegal basis: the governor's regulation establishing KJP Plus, enacted 26 January 2018, promulgated 31 January 2018, amended by Governor Regulation 15/2019 and still in force.

↗ Pemprov DKI Jakarta — KJP Plus 2025Official page: recipient data are synchronised with the national welfare registry by the education and social affairs agencies; Rp824 billion paid to 707,622 pupils on 20 March 2025 (580,893 continuing, 126,729 new).

↗ ANTARA — KJP Plus June 2025 disbursementSupports the monthly amounts per school level (Rp250k primary, Rp300k lower secondary, Rp420k upper secondary, Rp450k vocational), the Rp100,000 monthly cash-withdrawal cap with the remainder non-cash, payment through Bank Jakarta, 707,622 recipients and the Rp3.2 trillion 2025 budget against Rp2.5 trillion in 2024.

↗ ANTARA — council and city agree to reactivate 105,000 KJP Plus recipientsSentence-level source for the counterweight: 105,225 cards revoked after data matching and Phase II 2024 verification by the regional revenue agency, of which 15,545 owned a four-wheeled vehicle or property valued above Rp1 billion and 89,680 were classed non-priority; restoration agreed 23 December 2024 for early January 2025.

↗ detikcom — city and council agree to reactivate removed KJP recipientsIndependent confirmation of the same figures (24 December 2024) and the detail that the 89,680 were continuing recipients ranked in welfare deciles six to ten.

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↗ Koran Jakarta — KJP Plus first tranche 2026Currency check: the programme is still running in 2026, with Rp1,620,226,200,366 paid to 707,477 pupils in the first tranche from 5 March 2026, alongside periodic recipient-data updates by the education agency.

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🇰🇷 Dongbaekjeon Local Currency Card · Busan Both cards fence in where public money goes: Busan's cashback favours small shops, Jakarta's allowance works only at registered merchants. 🇮🇳 GEPTIS: Bengaluru's Geospatial Property Tax Map · Bengaluru Bengaluru matched property records to collect tax; Jakarta matched the same kind of records against welfare rolls and cut 105,225 pupils. 🇮🇳 Doorstep Delivery of Public Services · New Delhi Delhi sent a clerk with a tablet to the door; Jakarta pushes the entitlement onto a card — two ways to deliver without a portal.

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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “KJP Plus: Jakarta's School Allowance Card” — Jakarta, Indonesia. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/jakarta-kjp-plus/ (last verified 2026-07-26). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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