JAKARTA - DPR Speaker Puan Maharani responded to the government's plan to provide permanent social assistance (bansos) to the elderly, people with Mental Disorders (ODGJ). Puan emphasized the importance of data validation and verification before the government changed the social assistance distribution scheme.
"Regarding social assistance, the most important thing is how validation, verification and matters related to the data must be recorded first," said Puan at the DPR building, Senayan, Tuesday, July 15.
Puan also reminded the importance of evaluating the distribution of social assistance so that changes to the new scheme do not cause problems in the future. Puan said that an accurate validation and verification process is the key to ensuring that the policy is right on target.
"So don't then have a polemic and then suddenly we seem to rush and then change something that has been done," said the former Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture.
"The most important thing is how to validate and verify the data really well. If it has been validated and verified properly, then we can only change or change who the recipient is," he continued.
Puan also reminded that the potential for social assistance recipients was previously disappointed if there was a change in the scheme without data clarity. "Because all this time it has been running, if it is later changed, of course the recipients who received yesterday will be disappointed. So first validation and verification of the data properly," he said.
Therefore, Puan stated that the DPR would continue to encourage the government to carry out comprehensive data collection.
"That, as I said, the DPR will certainly encourage the government to verify and validate data first," concluded Puan.
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Previously, the Coordinating Minister for Community Empowerment, Muhaimin Iskandar or Cak Imin, said that the people who received social assistance (bansos) for life were only in the elderly category, disabled and people with mental disorders (ODGJ). In addition to that category, social assistance is limited to a maximum of five years.
"Yes, there is a period of term, to this day we conclude that for people with disabilities, the elderly (parents), and the ODGJ are eternal, social assistance continues. In addition to these three, it is limited. For the time being a maximum of 5 years," said Cak Imin after attending the inauguration of PB IKA PMII in Pancoran, South Jakarta, Sunday, July 13.
Cak Imin conveyed that the people who received social assistance (bansos) for life were only in the elderly category, disabled and people with mental disorders (ODGJ).
In addition to that category, social assistance is limited to a maximum of five years according to the provisions of the Central Statistics Agency (BPS).
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