Jakarta. The Immigration and Corrections Ministry has attracted almost 2,000 passport applicants during a week-long festival marking its first anniversary, exceeding the original target of 1,000 applicants.

The event, hosted at Senayan Urban Forest in Jakarta, offers integrated passport services alongside various public activities. Immigration and Corrections Minister Agus Andrianto said the anniversary celebration is being used as a momentum to improve service delivery.

“If people come seeking passport services, we will continue to serve them -- there will be no restrictions,” Agus said.

The festival also features 23 booths of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) from Jakarta, Banten, West Java, and Central Java. Agus noted that the ministry plans to build a dedicated marketplace for handcrafted products made by inmates across Indonesia.

“Hopefully, we can build facilities for nationwide distribution of correctional products. The plan is for the first facility to be built in Tangerang,” he said.

Indonesia’s immigration and corrections offices were previously two separate directorates under the Law and Human Rights Ministry. After President Prabowo Subianto took office last year, they were restructured into a standalone ministry.

Earlier this month, the ministry issued a new generation of electronic passports featuring advanced multicolor invisible fluorescent ink that becomes visible under ultraviolet light -- a security enhancement designed to strengthen the resilience of Indonesian travel documents.

While the new design has already been introduced, passports with the previous security features will continue to be issued until existing stocks run out. Holders of older passports do not need to replace them early, as they remain valid until expiration.

The ministry stressed that the Indonesian passport represents national identity as well as travel authorization. Each page contains cultural and natural heritage illustrations, intended to support Indonesia’s cultural diplomacy on the global stage.

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