Minister Of Social Affairs: Village Deliberation Prevents Abuse Of Social Assistance Data Proposal

Minister of Social Affairs (Mensos) Tri Rismaharini said the village deliberation for the proposal for recipients of social assistance whose results were uploaded to the system was aimed at supporting transparency and avoiding abuse for the benefit of certain parties.

Social Minister Risma said that at several points there were found practices that used the proposal for names for Integrated Social Welfare Data (DTKS) for personal interests.

"That's what we want to eliminate in this process, with the village deliberation process that must be completed with the documents, God willing, something like this will not happen. Including one of the suggestions, our assistants under the Ministry of Social Affairs should not be the operator of data management in the regions," Risma said as quoted by ANTARA, Wednesday, May 8.

Risma explained that the mechanism for deliberation of villages or sub-districts that must be carried out at least once in three months must now include deliberation report documents, activity documentation, attendance lists and documentation of the publication of deliberation results uploaded to the Ministry of Social Affairs system.

The data can then also be checked by other parties using the Cek Bansos application in the process of proposing a rebuttal as a recipient of social assistance based on DTKS.

If no deliberation is held, the village head must issue a Statement of Absolute Responsibility (SPTJM) and a statement not to carry out deliberation at the village/kelurahan level.

"Earlier I said, if there is no village deliberation or village deliberation, then it is an absolute responsibility (village head). This is a suggestion from the BPKP, an absolute responsibility from the village head, so that there are no more accusations that this suddenly exists," said Social Minister Risma.