Indonesia Tenders 4PB of Storage for National Biometric ID Infrastructure, With New ABIS Planned
The Dukcapil tender, funded by a US$250 million World Bank project, closes December 10; a separate ~US$40 million ABIS acquisition with e-KYC integration is in early market consultation.
Indonesia's Directorate General of Population and Civil Registration (Dukcapil) has published a tender for 4 petabytes of storage — two lots of 2PB — for active-active replication of civil registration and biometric data across the ABIS and SIAK platforms. The procurement notice appeared on October 28 with bids due December 10, 2026. Funding comes from a US$250 million World Bank-supported project; the storage contract is estimated at roughly US$16.9 million.
Separately, Dukcapil is preparing a new automated biometric identification system (ABIS) acquisition estimated at around US$40 million. Early market consultation for that procurement includes integration with the national digital identity platform and e-KYC services, positioning biometric matching as upstream infrastructure for banking and fintech identity verification.
For the financial sector the significance is indirect but structural: national identity infrastructure underpins every bank's e-KYC chain, and multimodal biometric deduplication upgrades will affect the quality of identity verification used across account opening and lending. The World Bank procurement plan (P175218) is public. Given international procurement scale and requirements, delivery timelines realistically stretch into 2027.