Vice President: Addressing Extreme Poverty Focuses On 212 Regencies/Cities

Vice President Ma'ruf Amin/PHOTO VIA ANTARA

JAKARTA - Vice President Ma'ruf Amin stated that the handling of extreme poverty in 2022 will be carried out in 212 districts/cities, 70 percent of which are coastal areas.

"After we make efforts to handle 2021 in 35 regencies/cities in 7 provinces, then in 2022 it is planned that around 212 regencies/cities will be handled", said the Vice President when giving a press statement after chairing the Extreme Poverty Reduction Meeting on the Coast, at the Vice President's Palace, Jakarta, quoted by Antara, Tuesday, December 21.

The Vice President said that in 2021, of the 35 regencies/cities handled, as many as 24 regencies, or 70 percent of them are coastal areas.

In 2022, of the targeted 212 regencies/cities to be handled, 70 percent are also coastal areas.

"In 2022, it turns out that from 212 regencies/cities, 147 of them, 69 percent, or 70 percent, are also coastal areas", explained the Vice President.

The vice president said that in the meeting, apart from discussing the overall handling of poverty, he and related ministries and institutions also made efforts to suppress extreme poverty on the coast.

"We involve the Ministry of Maritime Affairs, the Ministry of Cooperatives and SMEs, the Ministry of Manpower for education and training", he explained.

The vice president also invited the Navy because it has a maritime area development program and the National Amil Zakat Agency (Baznas) which has a poverty alleviation program in the regions.

"We have carried out the action plan earlier, unlike in previous years. So we are early. We hope that by 2022, we have completed 212 regencies/cities so that the rest can be completed by 2023, and by 2024 extreme poverty will be zero percent", he said.