Indonesia Citizenship Renounciation via AHU SAKE

Hello,


First of all, congratulation to you! 

Finally your long awaited citizen application is approved and the journey starts from now.

Here are some guide after you received your approval in-principal letter from ICA.

Note: if you applied together with your family, the approval in principal will only state your name, you'll receive the approval letter both for you and your child. So just wait for it 😊

STEP 1: Complete the Singapore Citizenship Journey

You need to complete it within 2 months from the date in the approval in-principal letter. They will send you reminder prior to the due date. 

There are 4 parts in the journey:

First thing to take note is to book immediately the Singapore Experiential Tour (weekly time slot) and the Community Sharing Session (once a month time slot). This is important as sometimes their available slots are really limited and might not be able to book within 2 months period.

1. Singapore Experiential Tour – it is half-day guided tour, you need to choose a set of place and just book the next available slots. As for me, I booked set H-the Malay Heritage Centre and PUB Exhibition Centre in Marina Barrage. Once you booked, you'll receive email confirmation and SMS reminder on that day.   

2. Community Sharing Session – They will assign you to the nearest Community Center. For 3 hours session, they will tell you on how to contribute to the society, to get to know your neighbor, and etc. Dinner will be provided, so please come with your empty stomach 😊 Again, SMS reminder on that day and remember to wear formal business clothes and cover shoes. I saw people being kicked out for wearing sandals/ uncovered shoes! 

3. Singapore Citizenship E-journey - you'll need to watch video and answer some quiz about Singapore history. That will take about 1 hour approximately.

4. Post Survey Questionnaire- Not compulsory.

STEP 2: Citizenship Approval Letter.

After completion of the Singapore Citizenship Journey, you'll get an approval letter within a week. There will be an instruction that you need to formally renounce your Indonesian citizenship before the appointment date that has been assigned to you. if you can't make it, you can change the appointment online up to 3 attempts from ICA website. Please be wise as you only have 3 chances to amend the date. And if you change the date, do not forget to print out / save as pdf your appointment confirmation.


STEP 3: RENOUNCIATION OF INDONESIA CITIZENSHIP- PREPARATION OF DOCUMENTS 

Starting from 2 January 2020, KBRI will not entertain citizenship renunciation and it will go to Kementrian Hukum Umum and Hak Asasi Manusia via online application: AHU SAKE website. 

First thing first, before you apply AHU SAKE online, here are the documents that needed to be prepared.

3a. Get the final ICA letter translated by sworn translator and notarized by Indonesia notary public office.

As Kementrian Hukum Umum and Hak Asasi Manusia  (our Indonesia government) needs any foreign documents to be translated from English to Bahasa Indonesia and notarized by local notary in Indonesia, I will need to go to the nearest local notary office, Batam. 

So, what I first did is to get translation company in Singapore to translate the documents (cost $30-$50 per page), stamped with the sworn translator stamp, and then took ferry to Batam to find local Indonesian Notary office, below info:

Bun Hai, SH, M.Kn

Komp. Acellence Blok A no 17

Jalan Pasir Putih Batam Center.

T: 0778- 7483511

Email: bunhai_ng@yahoo.com

Just call/email them and book appointment in advance, at least they know you’re coming on that day and don’t forget to prepare all original documents for them to verify before notarize the documents.

My fault is that I didn’t know that Kementrian Hukum Umum and Hak Asasi Manusia doesn’t accept foreign notary hence I spent $300 plus to get the documents translated and notarized by SAL (Singapore Academy Law) and MFA (Ministry of Foreign Affairs). So few hundreds dollar just wasted like that.

3b. Since I'm making trip to Batam for a day, I got my birth certificate (akte lahir) and passport (photocopy) to be notarized as well. For those married, ROM certificate needs to be translated and notarized as well. Please bring all the original documents for verification purposes.

3c. Take passport sized photo, using red background and print out 4x6cm for 2 pages for hardcopy submission.

3d. Naturalization letter is the letter approval from ICA. Get it translated into Bahasa Indonesia and stamped by sworn translator. Get 2 copies and bring it to Batam to legalize the document as well. I’m abit kiasu so I took letter ICA part 1 and 2 to get it translated and legalized.

In conclusion, for Batam trip I brought:

- Birth certificate (akte lahir)

- Passport (photocopy)

- ICA letter (English and Bahasa version) 

- ROM cert (if married)

- Rupiah

After that, scan all the documents above into softcopy files. You are ready to apply online. 

STEP 3/4: AS PER 16 MARCH 2020, NOW KBRI CAN NOTARIZE THE DOCUMENTS FOR $35 PER PAGES. CAN SOMEONE VERIFY THIS? --> VERIFIED AS PER 2 OCT 2021, KBRI CANNOT DO NOTARIZATION OF THE DOCUMENTS FOR THIS MATTER. 

UPDATE AS PER 2 OCT 2021

Now a lot of Indonesia notary can do video-call/ tele-service for notarization matter, so you do not need to come down to their office (which means fly to Indonesia) to get the notarized documents. However, be prepared of additional fees. Alternatively, if you still have relatives in Indonesia, can ask them to help.

STEP 4: RENOUNCIATION OF INDONESIA CITIZENSHIP- AHU SAKE

Now, go to https://sake.ahu.go.id/ and register your account online. It will only take 5 mins to complete your account ID and password.

Then log in using your account ID and password, you will go to dashboard.

There are 8 options to choose, please choose one according to your category/ nearest to your category. For me, I chose: Permohonan Surat Keterangan Kehilangan Kewarganegaraan RI atas kemauan sendiri bagi orang yang belum memperoleh kewarganegaraan asing

And just follow the instruction by filling in your particular such as name, address, NIK (KTP number). 

Things to take note:

1. Tanggal akta lahir is the issue date of birth certificate, not your birth date.

2.  Surat Keterangan Naturalisasi is your ROC-20XX-APP-XXXX number stated in ICA letter, and not your IC number.

Please ensure you fill in particular correctly and generate the “Surat Permohonan” in PDF file. Later you will need to print this and stick the “materai Rp. 6,000,-“ and signed. 

Surat Permohonan looks like this:

Please use latest "materai" (stamp) which green colour as above and when you stick it and sign it, do sign your signature bigger than usual, in-between the materai and paper, to ensure that both sides (of materai and paper) have your signature. Minor but important thing. 

UPDATE AS PER 2 OCTOBER 2021

Now all the materai changed to Rp. 10,000.

Then, the system will ask you to upload necessary documents. Here when you have prepared all the required documents and scan it into softcopy files. 

I uploaded softcopy:

1.  Birth Certification in Bahasa Indonesia, original softcopy
2.  Indonesia passport, original softcopy.
3. ICA Letter translated (from ENG to INDO) and notarized by local notary office.
4. Passport photo sized 4x6cm softcopy, red color background, upload using JPEG file. Remember to cut off the white border line. 
5.  Reference number and proof of payment (in dashboard, view)

UPDATE AS PER 2 OCT 2021

Although Kartu Keluarga (KK) and Kartu Tanda Penduduk (KTP) were not mentioned/ asked in the application, my friend been asked by SAKE people to upload both KK and KTP legalized by local notary. And if you have the old expired KTP and have not converted to e-KTP, just give the old expired KTP, they are ok with it. 

Please prepare both document in the beginning, just in case if they ask....

I think the documents that required to submit will be vary depending on the category. I’m not sure about other category since my category is “Citizenship renunciation under my own because I’ve not already gotten others citizenship”. I have a friend that choose category: “Citizenship renunciation follows husband/ wife” and her requirement is slightly different from mine, she needs to upload ROM certificate. So just follow the instruction inside website.

After uploaded, it will bring you to the page that contain of payment information. Surat Perintah Bayar looks like this:

There are 2 ways of payment mode:

1. Make online bank transfer and print out/ saved the proof of payment and go to dashboard to upload your proof of payment for them to start processing. 

2. Some people went down to BNI bank in Cecil Street to make a payment, for this payment mode, you need to go down 2x, 1 time for transfer the payment, you will get blue receipt from BNI, and 1 more time to take the white receipt and this white receipt is to be uploaded inside the AHU website as a proof of payment.

Upload the proof of receipt in dashboard, upload bukti pembayaran and once they confirm, the red X will turn into green tick 

Last step, this is very important. Express courier/ Express mail out the photocopy of above documents together with materai and signed “Surat Permohonan in PDF file” latest 7 working days after your online submission. I used DHL  express cost $54 and need 2 working days to reach Jakarta office. This need to be fast since it’s already half way there in their system and they need hardcopy to continue the process. 

The Hardcopy as follows:

1. Birth Certification in Bahasa Indonesia, photocopied and notarized by local notary office in Batam.

2. Indonesia passport, photocopied and notarized by local notary office.

3. ICA Letter needs to translated (from ENG to INDO), photocopied and notarized by local notary office.

4. Passport photo sized 4x6cm, RED background, print for 2pcs for hardcopy submission.

5. Reference number and proof of payment (in dashboard, view, print).

Added:

6. Kartu Keluarga (KK), photocopied and notarized by local notary office.

7. Kartu Tanda Penduduk (KTP) either e-KTP or old expired KTP will suffice, photocopied and notarized by local notary office.

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The mailing address is:

Direktorat Tata Negara, Direktorat Jenderal Administrasi Hukum Umum.

Kementerian Hukum dan Hak Asasi Manusia Republik Indonesia.

Gedung Direktorat Jenderal Administrasi Hukum Umum.

Jl. HR. Rasuna Said Kav 6-7, Kuningan Jakarta Selatan, Kode Pos: 12940. 

Attention: 

Email: cs@ahu.go.id or subdit.kewarganegaraan@gmail.com   

Phone: +62 21 14077 or +62 21 525 3004

Alternatively, if you have relatives staying in Jakarta, leverage to them to pass it to the office directly. 

Rules of thumb is upload the original softcopy and send the hardcopy of photocopy notarized to Jakarta office for their verification purposes. Only ICA letter needs to be translated into Bahasa and notarized by the local notary (Batam) 

After that, the status in website looks like this: Status 1-5 will be grey color.

If the color shows yellow, means something wrong with your submission or uploaded wrong documents and need to re-do again.

Green color means already verified, so if all green color means good and waiting for the surat keterangan from AHU. Green color= we called it cendol. hahaha. 

Red color means rejected.

Then after that, waiting game…. Since the system is quite new so I kind of understand lots of frustration and sleepless night waiting for approval.

For my case I sent the first batch on 5 February 2020 then sent the second batch on 13 February. The goal is to have 5 green ticks (approval). 

Tick 1: 17 Feb 2020

Tick 2: 18 Feb 2020

Tick 3, 4 and 5: 26 Feb. 2020

Received AHU letter on 26 Feb 2020

You can check status at dashboard, view.

And this is the sample of uploading the correct documents and got verified (sesuai) 

It took about 7-10 working days from the documents received by them, process, and verified. Be patient :-)

Finally I received email notification from AHU and download surat keterangan from website. 

STEP 5: TRANSLATE TO ENGLISH, GO TO KBRI TO LEGALISE THE DOCUMENT AND SURRENDER YOUR INDONESIAN PASSPORT. 

It is in Bahasa Indonesia so again, you’ll need to translate it into English and get legalized by KBRI Singapura. I used Pak Anwar for fast and affordable translation service, $30 per page and next day ready for collection. Asked 2 copies from him. 1 copy with picture and 1 copy without picture. 

Next day, you can go to KBRI Singapura to legalize the AHU translated letter and surrender your passport.

Firstly, register at counter first, tell them you'd like to go to consuler service.

Go to level 2 counter 12 and give the documents to be legalized, as follows:

1 AHU SAKE Indo version-original

1 AHU SAKE English version-original (with picture)

1 AHU SAKE English version-original (without picture)

Wait for the receipt and go to level 1 to pay $35 legalization fee by cash and surrender passport, don’t forget to take photo of your passport (for last time) as reference, because after this, you don’t have Indonesia passport anymore.

The next working day, you can go back to take the legalized translated documents and since you already know when the KBRI documents will be ready, re-arrange date with ICA for Oath of Renounciation, Allegiance, and Loyalty. I suggest to get the KBRI slip first before changing the ICA date, just for certainty. Just stay in Singapore and postpone business trip (if any) during this period of time as you don’t have passport to go out of the country.

UPDATE AS PER 2 OCT 2021

Now you need to call or email to book appointment before coming down to KBRI. Tell them that you need to come for 1. surrender passport. 2. legalize documents of above mentioned. They will reply you with this email confirmation, please bring this upon visitation. 

And now you're become stateless. 

One more step to become Singaporean. 

Next post, ICA for Oath of Renounciation, Allegiance, and Loyalty

Stay tune.

-Debbie-