Puan Asks For Evaluation Of Air Assistance Mechanism After Bobby Nasution's Action Viral

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Puan Maharani (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - Chairman of the Indonesian House of Representatives, Puan Maharani, responded to the action of the Governor of North Sumatra, Bobby Nasution, who threw aid for victims of floods and landslides in North Sumatra by throwing them from helicopters.

Puan requested that the provision of assistance in this way be evaluated. He encouraged the government to find other more effective and solution ways to provide assistance to disaster victims, including in isolated areas.

"As I said earlier, today we focus on being able to provide assistance effectively," said Puan at the Parliament Complex, Senayan, Jakarta, Wednesday, December 3.

"That there are indeed many areas whose routes are cut off, so they are carried out by air, but then the method of giving may be considered less effective or less good. Therefore, it also needs to be evaluated as well as possible," he continued.

Puan also encourages the distribution of aid to be carried out in a good way, so that it can benefit the community.

"Don't let the assistance that comes later not be useful for the victims," said the chairman of the PDIP DPP.

"So this is what we should think about the best steps for the affected communities, for the areas affected by the disaster," he concluded.

As is known, the action of the Governor of North Sumatra, Bobby Nasution, distributed aid from helicopters for victims of floods has gone viral on social media. The reason is, the aid actually shook when it arrived on the ground so that it could not be consumed by residents.

One of the social media that uploaded it was the Instagram account of the Ministry of Fights and the Medan BK. In the upload, it was written 'Aid for Flood Victims Falls from Helicopters, As a result, Nothing can be Eaten'. This is because the aid was dropped from the helicopter to reach residents who are still isolated.

Many residents are disappointed to get help that has been spurred. Some even pick up rice grains that burst from their sacks.