Electronic oppression: The junta sharpens its instruments of control | Frontier Myanmar 6/26/25, 5:46 PM someone’s name into our computer system and can immediately locate their data. It’s much easier,” she said. However, the legacy of decades of poor record keeping means getting documents has not been made easier for everyone. A man who lost his CSC said he was refused a new one at his local immigration office in Ayeyarwady’s Danubyu Township because the staff could not find an ID number for his grandfather, who died in 1956, in the digital database. The man explained to Frontier that, previously, the difficulty of tracking down old family records meant that verifying such details was often bypassed. “But now, they say they can check the data in the computer system, and if they don’t find it they can’t issue the CSC,” he said on condition of anonymity. “It doesn’t make sense to do that to someone who previously had a card.” But as with many bureaucratic procedures, the problem was solvable with money. “I just bribed the immigration officer, and he petitioned the district office to get permission for my card,” he said, adding that he got his new card within a month of handing over K250,000. SHARE    More stories US aid cuts kneecap Myanmar in fight against tuberculosis United States funding cuts have hit TB treatment in Myanmar particularly hard, leaving many of the country’s most vulnerable in a precarious position after the postcoup healthcare collapse erased years of progress. Related stories Myanmar’s resistance faces Losing count: Chaotic Against the odds: The diary a moral quandary after the census kicks o! of a frontline medic, part quake two https://www.frontiermyanmar.net/en/electronic-oppression-the-junta-sharpens-its-instruments-of-control/ Page 5 of 6