OpenGov Asia (20.05.2026) Indonesia will expand trials of its digital social protection platform, known as Perlinsos, to 42 cities and districts in June 2026. The initiative represents a significant scale-up of a pilot programme designed to modernise welfare distribution through integrated digital public infrastructure. By linking administrative and population data across agencies, the government aims to improve the accuracy and accessibility of social assistance programmes for millions of residents. According to official reporting, the next phase will expand far beyond the initial pilot launched in Banyuwangi, East Java, in September 2025. Mira Tayyiba, Director General of Digital Government Technology at the Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs, said the rollout represents a forty-two-fold increase in scale compared with the earlier trial.