Actors and Network in Policy Implementation of Electronic ID card (E-Ktp) in Semarang City

Abstract

Indonesia had some problems in registering citizen. Even, more than 31 institution released citizen number. Now, they have new policy which integrated all institution in one number. It is called as Electronic ID card (E-KTP). The policy take a new condition, where many institutions must be related each others. The purpose of this research is to understand the process of transforming policy and regulation of E-KTP into detail work plan, its implementation dynamics, role and network of actors–how they communicate and cooperate and the model of its policy. This qualitative research uses observation, interview, and Focus Group Discussion involved the provincial and city agency of population, Central Bureau of Statistics, districts, villages, the Population Data Recording Center, provincial and city education agency, public and private hospitals, police agency and others. The result shows that the regulation is sufficient to guide the implementation of the program. The dynamic of implementation is influenced by internal and external factors and changes in regulations. There are three main policy actors namely the central government, provincial and municipal governments, all of them form a network of policy actors and work together based on two things: bureaucratic structure and cooperation agreement.