JAKARTA - The Ministry of Social Affairs (Kemensos) has confirmed that the total amount of disaster social assistance budget of Rp. 600 billion in the first phase has been prepared to handle the impact of disasters in three provinces, namely Aceh, North Sumatra, and West Sumatra.
The Minister of Social Affairs (Mensos) Saifullah Yusuf alias Gus Ipul said that currently the government is preparing to distribute the disaster social assistance after previously focusing on the distribution of logistics and the provision of public kitchens in the affected areas.
"For disasters in the three areas that we have done is the distribution of logistics and public kitchens. Now the refugees have started to decrease, so we are entering the stage of distributing compensation and recovery," he said when met in Jakarta, Friday, quoted by Antara.
Kemensos previously had distributed compensation for the heirs of the deceased victims worth Rp15 million per person, as well as assistance for severe injuries of Rp5 million per person.
The Ministry of Social Affairs data recorded that as of early January, there were 355 heirs of victims who died due to the flash flood disaster accompanied by landslides that hit Aceh, North Sumatra, and West Sumatra who received the assistance.
However, he added, the government through the Ministry of Social Affairs also prepared a house filling assistance for affected families of Rp. 3 million per family. This assistance is intended for the purchase of basic kitchen equipment and household needs.
Kemensos will also distribute social assistance for economic recovery per family, which is given once, as well as a life assurance assistance in the form of cash of Rp. 450 thousand per person per month for three months.
"This life insurance assistance is provided for three months. So Rp. 450 thousand in three months, and adjusted to the number of family members," he said.
Saifullah emphasized that the three aids were distributed through a strict and layered data collection process. The initial data came from the National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB), then determined by the regent and mayor, and verified with local law enforcement and TNI.
Furthermore, the data is consolidated with the Ministry of Home Affairs and matched with population data through the Directorate General of Population and Civil Registration, before being determined as beneficiaries by the Ministry of Social Affairs.
"We are processing the data from BNPB and then it is determined by the Regent, the Mayor, which is accessed by the Kajari, the Police Chief and the Dandim, then it is brought to the Ministry of Home Affairs, matched with the Dukcapil in the parish by the Minister of Home Affairs, we just determine it as a beneficiary and then we distribute it," he said.
He hopes that the distribution of the first phase of assistance can begin gradually at the end of January, as the readiness of beneficiary data in the affected areas.
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