Resident Administration in the Special Jakarta Area

Regional Regulation No. 2 of 2011 on the Registration of Citizens and Civil Affairs (“Regulation”) was issued to improve resident administration and civil registration in the Special Jakarta Area. The Regulation regulates residents’ rights and obligations, resident administration, civil registration, and the protection of resident data and information. 

The residents, non-permanent residents, and temporary residents of the Special Jakarta Area are required to report their residency and important events to the Registration of Citizen and Civil Affairs Agency of the Special Jakarta Area (“Agency”). Foreigners who are family members of a foreign envoy or an international organization, are not obliged to report civil events, but they are encouraged to report a civil event, as stipulated in Article 3.