Badanas Distributes Rice Food Assistance For 22 Million Families This Year

Head of the National Food Agency (NFA) Arief Prasetyo Adi. (Photo: Doc. Antara)

JAKARTA - The National Food Agency or Bapanas distributed rice food assistance to 22 million beneficiary families (KPM) this year.

"Food assistance is based on data from the Coordinating Ministry for Economic Affairs with a figure of around 22 million beneficiary families," said Head of Badanas Arief Prasetyo Adi in Jakarta, quoted from Antara, Thursday, March 14.

According to Arief, in 2024 there will be a budget of around Rp440 billion plus an additional Rp6.8 trillion for food assistance, namely rice food assistance for the first 3 months.

In addition to food assistance, Bapanas also this year distributed aid to 1.4 million families at risk of stunting.

"Then there are also six months for stunting risk families assistance carried out by the Food ID Food BUMN Holding for around 1.4 million families, based on data from the National Population and Family Planning Agency (BKKBN).

Rice food assistance is a government program in the form of rice distribution sourced from the government's rice reserve stock (CBP) managed by Bulog. This program is one of the utilizations of CBP in accordance with the mandate of Presidential Regulation Number 125 of 2022 concerning Management of Government Food Reserves.

This rice food aid is one of the government's various economic bearing programs for low-income people.

Arief said that this assistance did look massive because Bapanas continued to coordinate well with local governments and its distribution throughout Indonesia.

Meanwhile, the National Food Agency (Bapanas) is also working with the National Population and Family Planning Agency (BKKBN) to distribute egg and chicken meat assistance to families at risk of stunting.

The egg and meat assistance provided was purchased directly from farmers through assistance from ID Food belonging to State-Owned Enterprises (BUMN).