GRESIK, Saco-Indonesia.com — Kartu tanda penduduk elektronik (e-KTP) dianjurkan untuk tidak difotokopi sebab di dalam kartu identitas kependudukan itu tertanam cip.

Direktur Jenderal Kependudukan dan Pencatatan Sipil Kementerian Dalam Negeri Irman mengatakan, kerusakan cip yang tertanam di dalam e-KTP bisa saja terjadi karena proses fotokopi.

Ia menyarankan, kartu itu tak usah difotokopi melainkan setiap institusi pelayanan harus mempunyai card reader. "Hanya cukup memasukkan Nomor Induk Kependudukan (NIK), bisa sebagai kunci akses data," kata Irman, di Gresik. Jawa Timur, Rabu (1/5/2013).

NIK itu sifatnya personal dan tertera pada setiap keping e-KTP. "Jadi jangan khawatir ada data ganda karena pasti kelihatan. Sistem kami langsung menolak bila seseorang pernah melakukan perekaman data," tutur Irman.

Berdasarkan perekaman e-KTP selama ini, pihak Direktorat  Jenderal Kependudukan dan Pencatatan Sipil Kementerian Dalam Negeri telah membersihkan sekitar 7 juta NIK ganda dari 497 Kabupaten/kota seluruh Indonesia. Irman juga mengimbau agar tim e-KTP semua kabupaten/kota segera melakukan perekaman, terutama para kaum urban.

Irman menegaskan, mulai 1 Januari 2014, KTP lama tidak berlaku lagi. Proses perekaman sudah harus tuntas paling lambat Juli 2013. Sampai Oktober akan tercetak semua hasilnya. Sampai Desember 2013 semua keping e-KTP sudah didistribusikan ke setiap wajib KTP se-Indonesia.

Irman menyatakan, fungsi e-KTP banyak sekali, termasuk untuk pelayanan di kepolisian dan perbankan. "Saat ini banyak institusi yang sudah mengajukan untuk mengintegrasikan data e-KTP," ujarnya.

BEIJING (AP) — The head of Taiwan's Nationalists reaffirmed the party's support for eventual unification with the mainland when he met Monday with Chinese President Xi Jinping as part of continuing rapprochement between the former bitter enemies.

Nationalist Party Chairman Eric Chu, a likely presidential candidate next year, also affirmed Taiwan's desire to join the proposed Chinese-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank during the meeting in Beijing. China claims Taiwan as its own territory and doesn't want the island to join using a name that might imply it is an independent country.

Chu's comments during his meeting with Xi were carried live on Hong Kong-based broadcaster Phoenix Television.

The Nationalists were driven to Taiwan by Mao Zedong's Communists during the Chinese civil war in 1949, leading to decades of hostility between the sides. Chu, who took over as party leader in January, is the third Nationalist chairman to visit the mainland and the first since 2009.

Relations between the communist-ruled mainland and the self-governing democratic island of Taiwan began to warm in the 1990s, partly out of their common opposition to Taiwan's formal independence from China, a position advocated by the island's Democratic Progressive Party.

Despite increasingly close economic ties, the prospect of political unification has grown increasingly unpopular on Taiwan, especially with younger voters. Opposition to the Nationalists' pro-China policies was seen as a driver behind heavy local electoral defeats for the party last year that led to Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou resigning as party chairman.