Bogor Disburses Unexpected Costs Of IDR 3 Billion For Procurement Of Social Assistance

BOGOR - The Regency Government of Bogor, West Java, has disbursed an unexpected cost of IDR 3 billion for the provision of social assistance in 2021.

"The IDR 3 billion budget is for the procurement of 20,000 social assistance packages", said Secretary of the Bogor Regency Social Service, Supriadi, quoted by Antara, Wednesday, August 4.

According to him, the social assistance is worth IDR 150,000 per package for residents who are self-isolating until July 31, 2021, has distributed 6,407 packages to 40 sub-districts throughout Bogor Regency.

He said residents who are doing self-isolating can register with the village government to get a social assistance package containing the food ingredients.

"Later, the list will be submitted to the village, the village reports to the sub-district, and in the sub-district, we report the data to us, so that one door, there is no double data", said Supriadi.

In addition, Supriadi asked sub-districts and villages to actively collect data on their citizens who are self-isolating due to exposure to COVID-19.

"We ask the sub-district head to re-propose if there are people who are self-isolating  With complete data, people who are self-isolating get this assistance", he said.