Prabowo Gives Additional Social Assistance To Protect The National Economy

JAKARTA - President Prabowo Subianto officially announced the provision of incentive packages and economic stimulus worth IDR 24.44 trillion to keep the momentum of national economic growth positive during June-July.

One of the incentive packages and economic stimulus is the addition of social assistance funds.

"Today, the President decided to provide a stimulus package so that the economy can maintain its momentum and also strengthen economic stability," said Finance Minister (Menkeu) Sri Mulyani with Minister of Social Affairs (Mensos) Saifullah Yusuf, Minister of Agriculture (Mentan) Andi Amran Sulaiman, and Head of BPS Amalia Adininggar Widyasanti as reported by ANTARA, Monday, June 2.

Minister of Finance Sri Mulyani detailed the five stimulus packages, including transportation discounts, toll tariff discounts, additional social assistance, Wage Subsidy Assistance (BSU), and extension of work Accident Insurance (JKK) contributions discounts.

Additional social assistance will be given to vulnerable and poor groups amounting to Rp200,000 for two months to the target recipients of the basic food cards, namely 18.3 million recipients.

"In addition to Rp. 200,000 per month for the two months paid this June, they will get 10 kg of free rice assistance for two months, will get 20 kg of rice. The total budget provided is Rp. 11.93 trillion," said Minister of Finance Sri Mulyani.

Meanwhile, Social Minister Saifullah Yusuf said President Prabowo Subianto wanted the social assistance given on target to people in need.

For this reason, he said, the distribution of social assistance now refers to the National Sole Social Economy Data (DTSEN).

"The president wants what this (assistance) provides to be right on target, to those who really need it and have the right to receive assistance from the government," said the Minister of Social Affairs.

DTSEN is confirmed through Presidential Instruction Number 4 of 2025 so that it is mandatory to become a single reference for ministries, institutions, and local governments (Pemda) in distributing government assistance and empowerment programs.

Based on the consolidation of the data, he said, specifically for the Ministry of Social Affairs in order to distribute social assistance in the second quarter, ground-checking is carried out to find inclusion/exclusion errors.

"From the background-checking results, there are more than 1.9 million data called inclusion errors, they should not have been able to (assistance), but so far they have received assistance. There are also exclusion errors, which should have been obtained but could not," said Social Minister Saifullah Yusuf.

In the future, lanjuydia, DTSEN will also be updated regularly every three months.