Elnino Usai, Pemerintah Beri BLT Pangan Rp200,000 Per Bulan Mulai Februari!

JAKARTA - The government will provide direct cash assistance for the community to mitigate food risks of IDR 11.25 trillion for 18.8 million Beneficiary Families (KPM).

Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto emphasized that the government will provide direct cash assistance for the first three months in 2024 and this food BLT is given as an effort to mitigate food risks.

"Direct cash assistance for food risk mitigation for 3 months and it will be evaluated for another three months and the first three months will be given around February of 200,000 per month," he explained to the media crew, Monday, January 29, 2024.

The food risk mitigation BLT was given to replace the BLT El Nino program which was given at the end of last year, with the same nominal amount of IDR 200 thousand per month in November and December 2023.

The government has assigned PT Pos Indonesia as a transporter as a distributor of BLT. In the implementation of the distribution of Food Aid Recipients (PBP), it will be adjusted to the nominal list.

On the same occasion, Minister of Finance Sri Mulyani Indrawati said that the budget prepared by the government for BLT mitigating food risk was IDR 11.25 trillion for the first three months of 2024.

"(BLT) for the 3 months is IDR 11.25 trillion for 18 million KPM," said Sri Mulyani.

Sri Mulyani added that the distribution of BLT will be distributed for three months at once amounting to Rp600 thousand for January to March 2024 which will be distributed in February 2024.

"Because this is almost finished (januari) but from the Ministry of Social Affairs for the affairs of the dipa, and the use of the data and the application to the cost. It will be given 3 months at once, we will see the readiness of the Ministry of Social Affairs," he said.