Pramono on Proposed Special Card For Widows In Jakarta: This is A Weird Idea

JAKARTA - Jakarta Governor Pramono Anung responded to a proposal from the Jakarta Regional People's Representative Council (DPRD) for the Jakarta Provincial Government to create a widow card as part of its new social assistance (bansos) program. Pramono considered the proposal strange.

"It's just strange. I don't want to answer," Pramono said at Jakarta City Hall on Wednesday, July 23.

Previously, the Gerindra Party faction of the Jakarta DPRD proposed that the Jakarta Provincial Government issue a social assistance program for widows whose husbands have left them.

This was conveyed by Jamilah Abdul Gani, Deputy Treasurer of the Gerindra Faction of the Jakarta DPRD, during a plenary meeting of the faction's general views on the Draft Regional Regulation on Amendments to the 2025 Regional Budget.

"The Gerindra Faction asks the Jakarta Provincial Government to consider issuing the Jakarta Widow Card (KJJ) program," Jamilah said at the Jakarta DPRD building, Central Jakarta, Monday, July 21.

Jamilah explained that this proposal was a public aspiration conveyed to Gerindra Faction members during recess.

However, not all widows are recommended to receive a widow card. If the Jakarta Provincial Government approves, the recipients of this assistance will be widowed women aged 45 and over.

Furthermore, Gerindra's proposed widow card recipients require that they be unemployed, housewives, have been survived by their husbands, and be registered in the Integrated Social Welfare Data (DTKS).

"The KJJ card is expected to be a social protection instrument that responds to the economic vulnerability of this group," he explained.