Social Minister Risma Admits Not To Know About Governor Anies Baswedan's Letter Regarding Dual Data Bansos

JAKARTA - Social Minister Tri Rismaharini admitted that she did not know about the letter from the Governor of DKI Jakarta Anies Baswedan regarding the double data on social assistance (bansos) of Cash Social Assistance (BST) that needed to be verified and validated. press conference in Jakarta, Tuesday. But Risma confirmed that there was a request from DKI Jakarta Province for the distribution of BST through regional banks. However, channeling through regional banks takes 1-1.5 months so it is possible that the distribution of social assistance cannot be done simultaneously. “Then we offer it to other banks, and so on. In the end, we decided to distribute it through PT POS Indonesia,” he said. Meanwhile, Risma confirmed that she would help repair the data on social assistance recipients in DKI, which according to her is only 40 percent.

Risma ensured that the distribution of BST had reached 95 percent. Meanwhile, the Family Hope Program and Non-Cash Food Aid for Java Island reached 89 percent. Previously, the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government found 99,450 duplicate data on families of beneficiaries (KPM) of COVID-19 social assistance. Responding to this, the Governor of DKI Jakarta Anies Baswedan wrote to the Minister of Social Affairs Tri Rismaharini requesting validation of the data on social assistance recipients. According to the Head of the DKI Jakarta Social Service, Premi Lasari, there is a double data of 99,450 KPM with data from the Ministry of Social Affairs. there is data validation. Governor Anies, he said, had written to the Minister of Social Affairs to ask for data certainty by name by address.