Program Keluarga Harapan (PKH)
Program Keluarga Harapan (PKH) is Indonesia's flagship national conditional cash transfer program, run by the Ministry of Social Affairs since 2007, that supports poor and near-poor households (Keluarga Penerima Manfaat, or KPM) identified through the government's integrated social-welfare database (DTKS/DTSEN). Eligible households receive cash tied to having a pregnant/breastfeeding woman, a child aged 0-6, a student in primary through secondary school, a senior aged 60+, or a person with a severe disability, conditional on using health, nutrition, and education services. It is funded entirely by the Indonesian state budget (APBN) and currently reaches roughly 9-10 million families nationwide, disbursed in cash tranches onto a Kartu Keluarga Sejahtera (KKS) bank card issued by state banks (Bank Himbara). PKH is supported by a nationwide network of social-worker facilitators (pendamping PKH) and is often bundled with Indonesia's non-cash food assistance (BPNT/Kartu Sembako) and subsidized health insurance (PBI-JK). Families are subject to periodic re-verification and a graduation policy that caps most components' participation at roughly five years, with elderly and severe-disability cases exempt from the cap.
Indonesia, Conditional Cash Transfer, National Government Program, Poverty Reduction, DTKS/DTSEN Targeting, Family-Based Benefit, Southeast Asia
Headquarters
- Organization Name
- Kementerian Sosial Republik Indonesia (Ministry of Social Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia)
- City
- Central Jakarta
- State / Province
- Jakarta
- Country
- Indonesia
Contact
- Website
- https://pkh.kemensos.go.id/
- Phone
- 171 (Kemensos toll-free social-assistance call center, Indonesia only)
- Social media links
Status & Funding
- Organization status
- Active
- Program status
- Active
- Application status
- Rolling
- Number of recipients
- 9,400,000
- Funding type
- Government
Benefits
- Currency Type
- Fiat
- Payment frequency
- Variable
- How long the program lasts
- 60 months
- Distribution Type
- Direct Deposit, Debit Card (Kartu Keluarga Sejahtera / KKS via state banks BNI, BRI, Mandiri, BTN)
- Benefit details
Under the documented Kemensos benefit structure (in effect since 2019), each KPM household receives a flat annual 'Bantuan Tetap' of Rp550,000/family/year (Rp1,000,000/family/year in remote 'PKH AKSES' areas), plus a per-person 'Bantuan Komponen' for up to 4 qualifying family members: Rp2,400,000/year each for a pregnant woman, a child aged 0-6, a person with severe disability, or a senior citizen; Rp900,000/year per primary-school (SD) student; Rp1,500,000/year per junior-high (SMP) student; and Rp2,000,000/year per senior-high (SMA) student. Funds are disbursed in cash tranches (historically 3-4 stages per calendar year, timed to national treasury/KPPN budget-release cycles) into a KKS account at a state-owned bank, withdrawable via ATM or bank agent. Some 2025-2026 news sources describe updated/higher nominal figures and a possible new 'stunting' sub-category, but these could not be verified against an official Kemensos regulation, so the verified structure above is used here.
Eligibility
Overview
- Eligibility details
PKH targets poor and near-poor households ('keluarga miskin dan rentan miskin', generally welfare decile 1-4) registered in DTKS/DTSEN that contain at least one member in a qualifying category: a pregnant/postpartum woman (max 2 pregnancies counted), a child aged 0-6 (max 2 children), a school-age child (6-21) who has not completed 12 years of compulsory education, a person aged 60+ (max 1 per family), or a person with severe physical/mental disability (max 1 per family). Applicants must not be active civil servants (ASN), military/police (TNI/Polri), or pensioners drawing a fixed state salary, and must not have income above the local minimum wage as recorded in BPJS Ketenagakerjaan data. Recipients must use funds for health, nutrition, education and social-welfare purposes and fulfill conditionalities such as health checkups, school attendance, and monthly family-development group sessions (P2K2).
Demographics
- Minimum age
- 0
- Education level
- Elementary, Middle School, High School
- Language
- Indonesian
Family
- Family Status
- Parent, Expecting
- Caregiver status
- Caregiver for Elderly, Caregiver for Person with Disability
Health
- Disability status
- Yes
Citizenship
- Citizenship / immigration status
- Citizen
Geography
- Countries covered
- Indonesia
- Residency of Target Geography
- Yes
Participation
- Complementary program enrollment required
- Often bundled in practice with Bantuan Pangan Non Tunai / Kartu Sembako (BPNT, non-cash food assistance) and PBI Jaminan Kesehatan (subsidized national health insurance premiums), though these are administered as separate, parallel social-assistance programs rather than a strict enrollment requirement.
Application Process
- How to apply
Prospective beneficiaries (or a relative/neighbor/village official on their behalf) can register through the government's 'Cek Bansos' mobile app by creating an account with KTP/KK (ID card/family card) data, uploading a photo of their ID and a selfie holding it, and selecting the 'Daftar Usulan' menu to propose themselves or a family member. Alternatively, applicants can apply in person at their village or sub-district office (Kepala Desa/Lurah) with their KTP and KK; the proposal is then discussed in a village/sub-district deliberation (musyawarah desa/kelurahan) before being forwarded to the local Social Affairs Office (Dinas Sosial) for verification.
- Selection process
Village/sub-district officials input proposed households into the SIKS-NG data system, which draws on the national Data Terpadu Kesejahteraan Sosial (DTKS)/Data Tunggal Sosial Ekonomi Nasional (DTSEN) database. The local Social Affairs Office validates household data, which is passed through the Bupati/Walikota (regent/mayor) and Governor to the Minister of Social Affairs for finalization of the DTKS. The Directorate of Family Social Security (Direktorat Jaminan Sosial Keluarga) then matches candidate households against PKH's health, education, and social-welfare component criteria before formally enrolling them as KPM and assigning a social-worker facilitator (pendamping PKH).
