Online Gambling Victims Get Help, Vice President Ma'ruf: Social Assistance For The Poor

Vice President Ma'ruf Amin (photo: Mery Handayani/VOI)

JAKARTA - Vice President Ma'ruf Amin opened his voice about the polemic of online gambling victims or judol receiving social assistance (bansos). He emphasized that the program only targets the poor.

Furthermore, Ma'ruf said that the recipients of this social assistance must also be verified whether they are worthy of assistance. So, assistance can be distributed on target.

Social assistance is for the poor. So don't say gambling because of this, the focus is just poor. The verified category of poor people deserves social assistance. It continues to be updated every year," he said when met at the Jakarta Convention Center (JCC), Thursday, June 20.

Therefore, Ma'ruf emphasized that online gambling players should not get social assistance. This is because the aid is worried that it will be misused.

Furthermore, Ma'ruf also said that people who use social assistance for gambling must be removed from the data on beneficiaries.

"If the recipient of the social assistance, the social assistance is used for gambling, now it is revoked. That's my suggestion. Don't let people use social assistance to gamble. So it's not people who are gambling to be given social assistance. Social assistance recipients if gambling are revoked," he said.

Ma'ruf assessed that the revocation of the name from the list of social assistance recipients could provide lessons for other communities not to misuse social assistance.

"It was removed to teach everyone a lesson so that it is used for something useful," he said.