Not Only Marriage, KUA to Provide 40 Other Services

Jakarta – The Ministry of Religious Affairs has initiated the transformation of Religious Affairs Offices (KUAs) as interfaith service centers with the aim of expanding access to services for all religious communities.

Director of KUA and Sakinah Family Development, Zainal Mustamin, said that a mapping of 40 religious services that are considered to have the potential to be provided at KUAs has been conducted. Scroll further.

"These 40 types of services are still considered potential and require further discussion with the Directorate General of Islamic Guidance in addition to Islam to determine the services that can be implemented in KUAs," Zainal Mustamin said as quoted from the Ministry of Religious Affairs site. 

Meanwhile, Head of the Sub-directorate of Sakinah Family Development, Agus Suryo Suripto stated that there are several interfaith services that can be directly implemented at the KUA, such as marriage guidance and family consultation for non-Muslims.

"Some services can be directly implemented in the community, such as marriage guidance for non-Muslims and family consultation for non-Muslims, which will be carried out by each religious counselor," Suripto explained. 

Suripto hopes that the KUA transformation program can increase tolerance and harmony between religious communities in Indonesia. 

The KUA is expected to be a comfortable place for all levels of society to get the religious services they need.

The following is a draft of 40 services at the KUA that are expected to meet the needs of religious communities:

1. Marriage registration services
2. Marriage registration service
3. Marriage recommendation letter issuance service
4. Marriage data reception service
5. Correction and amendment of marriage data
6. Issuance of certificate of unmarried/widow/widower status 6.
7. Recording of overseas marriage report
8. Recording of marriage determination
9. Recording of marriage agreement
10. Premarital marriage guidance (bride and groom)
11. Marriage guidance during the marriage period (healthy relationship between husband and wife) 11.
12. Guidance on family financial management
13. Marriage age youth guidance (BRUN)
14. School-age youth guidance (BRUS)
15. Family counseling and mediation guidance
16. Family assistance and advocacy
17. Consultation on hitasukhaya family, sakinah family, Christian family, Catholic happy family.
18. Religious data utilization service
19. Issuance of house of worship identity
20. Issuance of recommendation letter for house of worship assistance
21. Guidance on the management of houses of worship
22. Religious consultation services
23. Issuance of recommendation letters for recipients of religious institution assistance
24. Service of issuance of registered certificate (SKT) of religious recitation
25. Issuance of recommendation letters for recipients of religious education assistance
26. Issuance of recommendation/permit to organize religious broadcast at sub-district level
27. Issuance of recommendation/permit for organizing religious holidays at the sub-district level.
28. Development of religious broadcasting with moderate insight
29. Guidance on strengthening religious art literacy
30. Guidance on strengthening and developing religious culture
31. Religious counseling services in the consultative field
32. Religious counseling services in the field of advocacy
33. Religious counseling services in the educational field
34. Religious counseling services in the informative field
35. People's economic empowerment services
36. Recommendation services for recipients of community economic empowerment assistance
37. Religious understanding conflict mediation services
38. Religious understanding consultation service
39. Consultation services on preventing social conflicts with religious dimensions
40. Mediation services for handling social conflicts with religious dimensions