How Risma Prevents Social Assistance From Mistargeting, Will Monitor Recipient's House Via Satellite

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Social Affairs (Kemensos) continues to strive to prevent mistargeted receipts of social assistance (bansos). One way to do this is by monitoring the shape of the recipient's house via satellite belonging to the National Institute of Aeronautics and Space (LAPAN).

"We will know later if the position of the house is with its geospatial data, satellite image data. So we will know the position of the house," said Social Minister Tri Rismaharini in an online discussion broadcast on the Indonesian KPK YouTube, Thursday, August 19.

With the use of satellites like this, the recipient of the social assistance that turns out to be a big house can be identified and the withdrawal of assistance can be carried out.

"So that one day if he says he is still poor, it turns out that his house is getting bigger. We can compare that. So, in the future, these inputs can be maximized," he said.

Monitoring the houses of recipients of social assistance is actually not a new thing because this has been done with the help of PT Pos Indonesia. The former mayor of Surabaya said that postmen who usually send money to the homes of beneficiaries will be asked to take photos.

"PT Pos Indonesia, which delivered our assistance, asked for additional applications for photos of houses and their coordinates," he said.

Meanwhile, in another way, the Ministry of Social Affairs will compare the use of electricity for social assistance recipients. This is expected to make the provision of assistance more targeted and prevent people in luxury or large homes from receiving social assistance.

"It would be really good if we also looked at, for example, in the future, the use of electricity. We will know more," said Risma.

According to him, people who really need social assistance usually do not consume large amounts of electricity. "So how can he accept that the house assistance, for example the house is 10 thousand watts, turns out to receive assistance, and this is something like that," said Risma.

"So now I'm looking for something like that to make him aware and they want to return it," he concluded.