The Ministry of Justice and Human Rights will begin launching electronic passports (e-passports) tomorrow. Explanation of the process for the e-passports can be accessed by email from the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights Directorate General of Immigration.
There will be 16,000 trial run passports issued by the immigration offices in Central Jakarta, West Jakarta and the Soekarno-Hatta International Airport.
E-passports will be safe from forgery, according to a statement from Minister of Justice and Human Rights Patrialis Akbar provided to Kompas on Tuesday.
Patrialis insists that the launching of these e-passports has nothing to do with Gayus Tambunan’s forged passports. “E-passports were planned by the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights a long time. It wasn’t launched exclusively because Gayus forged passports, but it is to prevent such incidents from happening again,” Patrialis explained.
Patrialis said the public shouldn’t rush in droves to register their passports electronically, reminding that e-passports will be applicable across the country in 2015.
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