What it is
DTKS is Indonesia's integrated social welfare data architecture, supported operationally by SIKS-NG and related administrative systems, for identifying and managing poor and vulnerable households across social assistance programmes.
Governance function
The system makes eligibility administratively legible. It determines who can be found, verified, updated, and linked to programmes across central and local government. In displacement contexts, its governance function is not only targeting but continuity: whether vulnerability remains visible after movement.
Who is included
Households whose poverty, vulnerability, identity, and domicile information are captured, validated, and updated in the registry can be routed toward assistance.
Who is left out
Displaced households, informal settlers, people without current domicile documents, households newly impoverished by shocks, and households whose circumstances change between updating cycles may be missed or delayed.
Where continuity breaks
Continuity breaks between disaster displacement lists and ordinary social welfare registries, and when a household moves across village, district, or province boundaries without data transfer, re-verification, or timely registry updating.
Why it matters
This entry maps the administrative infrastructure beneath social protection. Inclusion depends not only on policy intent but on whether data systems can follow people after displacement. The political economy archetype is registry-mediated inclusion: the state can include people whom it can identify, verify, and classify, while mobile or administratively irregular households risk becoming invisible.
Governance coding table
| Political economy archetype | Registry-mediated inclusion |
|---|---|
| Responsibility | The Ministry of Social Affairs holds national responsibility, while local governments play a major role in verification, validation, updating, and local-level implementation. |
| Eligibility | Eligibility depends on registry status, poverty and vulnerability criteria, identity records, domicile information, local validation, and programme-specific criteria. |
| Financing | The registry does not finance benefits itself, but it controls access to nationally and locally financed social assistance programmes. |
| Data systems | DTKS and SIKS-NG are the central data layer, interacting with civil registration, local welfare lists, disaster records, programme-specific databases, and emerging socio-economic registration reforms. |
| Delivery system | Delivery is programme-specific: cash transfers, food assistance, health subsidy links, education assistance, and other social assistance channels may use the registry. |
| Portability | Portability is constrained when social assistance is tied to registered domicile, local verification, programme lists, or administrative cycles that do not update at displacement speed. |
| Accountability | Accountability depends on grievance, correction, updating, and verification channels available through social affairs offices, village administrators, local governments, and programme mechanisms. |
| Time horizon | Ongoing administrative infrastructure with periodic updates, validation processes, and reform. |