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Government Security

Indonesia secures borders with new biometric system

By Adrienne Valdez | 21 October 2011

The Directorate General of Immigration (Imigrasi) will install a new biometric border management solution which can match up to 20 million unique biometric identities in nine airports and one seaport to tighten international borders’ security.

BioThenticate, to be provided by SITA, is a comprehensive matching and management biometric system that allows Indonesia’s government entities to co-ordinate their border control activities across multiple departments, captures face and fingerprint data of arriving travellers and manages it in a person-centric database of identities.

According to the Director of Immigration Information Systems, Rudhy Chaidir, “We began at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, Jakarta, which handles 10 million international passengers a year, and are now adding nine additional ports of entry. Now, we have an end-to-end solution which covers border management from the primary line, to passport, visa and stay permit and uses large scale, comprehensive biometric identity management.”

“We are confident we will achieve a significant reduction in identify fraud and enable tighter security at Indonesia’s international borders.”

Duplicate identities are consolidated into a single person record allowing people who are claiming multiple identities to be easily tracked. This data is used by all departments to prevent identity fraud, including controlling the issue of stay permits, and managing primary line operations and illegal migrant activity.

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