AMIN National Team Review Collaboration System In Social Assistance Giving Program

Photo: Doc. Antara

JAKARTA - The Anies Baswedan-Muhaimin Iskandar National Winning Team (Timnas AMIN) will review the collaboration system in the social assistance program (bansos) to reduce the burden of the State Revenue and Expenditure Budget (APBN).

The Advisory Council of the AMIN National Team, Awalil Rizky, said the collaborative system could be one of the new approaches so that social assistance can further help the Indonesian people.

"We will see the collaboration later, we will really calculate it first," Awil said at a press conference on the social protection program for the AMIN candidate pair, in Jakarta, quoted from Antara, Saturday, February 3.

To overcome poverty, Awalil said that AMIN is committed to providing several social assistance programs, including for the elderly up to Rp. 300 thousand per month, a quick treatment program with priority queues and picking up inspection balls, assistance for renovating decent housing for the elderly up to Rp. 5 million, and several other programs.

"Thus there will be an additional type of social assistance, which will be followed by an increase in the budget, if the pair of AMIN candidates are elected as president and vice president in 2024-2029," he said.

He said the reallocation of the budget was a way to overcome the increase in the budget. However, other alternatives must still be considered, one of which is a collaborative system.

On the same occasion, CORE Indonesia Senior Economist Hendri Saparini assessed that social institutions could be one of the government's choices in collaborating to overcome poverty because Indonesia is one of the most generous countries in the world.

Based on the World Giving Index 2023 released by the British charity, The Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) recently said that Indonesia was ranked first among the 142 countries surveyed, with a score of 68 out of 100 points.

Meanwhile, Indonesia has been recorded as the most generous country for six consecutive years based on the survey.

"Moreover, now various social institutions have relied on social media which makes it easier for people to make donations," said Hendri.

He said that government collaboration with social institutions can be done by mapping areas where there are still poor people to help.

From this mapping, according to him, the government can offer which areas can be assisted by social institutions and the rest will only use social assistance from the state budget.

"So poverty alleviation is not only the government's job, now this approach must be new and run by the next government," he said.