Thousands Of Cigarette Factory Workers In Surabaya Get BLT From Excise Revenue Sharing

SURABAYA - Thousands of cigarette factory workers in the city of Surabaya, East Java, received direct cash assistance of Rp. 300 thousand per person from the local city government from the excise revenue-sharing fund (DBHCT).

Head of the Regional Economic and Business Administration Section for the City of Surabaya Agus Hebi Djuniantoro said that the Surabaya City Government received DBHCT from the central government of around Rp.

"The BLT is at my place (Economic Section). So, from the DBHCT of Rp. 5 billion we received, for BLT it is around Rp. 2.1 billion," he said, quoted by Antara, Wednesday, December 15.

Hebi explained, according to instructions from the central government that the BLT from the DBHCT was intended only for factory workers.

"If you want to get BLT, you have to be a cigarette factory worker, because that's the mandate," he said.

According to Hebi, there are around 2,800 cigarette factory workers in Surabaya who will receive BLT.

To ensure that the workers or recipients of the BLT are actually cigarette factory workers, he continued, his party will call the factory concerned for verification and validation.

"The conditions must be a Surabaya ID card and validation of factory workers, even though he (factory worker) is a permanent or contract worker, it doesn't affect him," he said.

For the disbursement of BLT, it is certain that it will be carried out in the near future. Of course, he continued, the disbursement of the BLT would be coordinated with the prosecutor's office.