Anies Reiterated That Social Assistance Is Not A Solution To Overcome Poverty

Candidate for president (candidate) number 1, Anies Baswedan again emphasized that social assistance (bansos) is not a solution to solve the problem of poverty. According to him, poverty has been seen as a social problem, not an economic problem.

This was said by Anies when checking the prices of basic necessities as well as reviewing the condition of the traditional market in Flamboyan, Pontianak City, West Kalimantan (West Kalimantan), Tuesday, December 26.

"Therefore, poverty has been resolved for years with social policies," he said, confiscated by Antara.

The former governor of DKI Jakarta added that during a dialogue with several traders in Pontianak, all complained about the increasingly expensive prices of basic necessities and reduced people's purchasing power.

"For this reason, we will increase people's purchasing power by increasing economic growth and equity, so that people who are in the medium and low economies can feel economic growth as well. We will also provide support to traders by increasing market cooperatives, so that traders who need capital can get additional capital funds easily," said Anies.

Anies said that his party will also improve training for traders and MSME players, and facilitate access to capital so that they can grow and create many jobs.

On the same occasion, Anies ensured that one of his flagship programs, namely social assistance (Bansos) Plus, would be realized if he was elected president for the 2024-2029 period later.

"This program is a development of the existing program, which we are doing to strengthen one of the points of change so that this Social Assistance program can be better," he said.

Anies said that Bansos Plus has three main points, namely plus benefits, plus recipients, and plus services.

"Secondly, we also introduce Bansos Plus, plus its benefits which means the benefits will be added, plus the recipients which means the recipient data is corrected, and plus the service means that the state provides the best service to all recipients of Bansos Plus," said Anies.