HID Global, a global provider of trusted identity solutions, announced that it has been selected by the State Employment Agency of Indonesia, Badan Kepegawaian Negara (BKN), to provide the smart card printers for printing the smart cards of Indonesian civil servants. The smart cards, named the Kartu PNS Elektronik (KPE) card, are used by active and retired civil servants for a wide range of functions, including withdrawing salary or pension from automated teller machines. Using HID Global FARGO HDP5000 High Definition Printers/Encoders, BKN was able to quickly issue high-quality smart cards to the users, and do so at a relatively low cost.
BKN needed a highly efficient solution that could not only issue cards to both active and retired civil servants, but could also assist in retiring the old system and move all users to the new platform as soon as possible. Quality was also important to BKN because once the civil servants get their new cards, they would have to use the cards to withdraw their pay from the bank, so the cards had to be highly durable and tamper resistant.
