Data For Social Assistance And PKH Recipients Burnt, Kendari Social Service Agency Will Access Through Ministry Of Social Affairs

Kendari City Regional Secretary Nahwa Umar (center) accompanied by the Head of the Social Service Abdul Rauf (second right) during a review (ANTARA)

KENDARI - The Social Service of Kendari City, Southeast Sulawesi opened services in emergency tents after the main office building was burned down on Wednesday, January 5 yesterday.

The head of the Kendari Social Service, Abdul Rauf, said that his party will set up an emergency tent in the office yard starting today to ensure all services continue to run.

"We have to adjust to this condition, also according to the order of our Mayor to use the office yard, we will build emergency tents to serve the community starting today," said Rauf in Kendari, Antara, Thursday, January 6.

Rauf admitted that his party had coordinated with the local PLN so that electricity could be returned to normal and ensured the internet network so that it could access data for sending social assistance at the Ministry of Social Affairs (Kemensos).

As a result of a fire that scorched two buildings at the Kendari Social Service Office at around 18.00 WITA, all data on recipients of social assistance were burned.

Even though it was burnt down, Rauf confirmed that the data on recipients of the social assistance and the Family Hope Program (PKH) could still be retrieved because they had been sent to the center well in advance.

"I have coordinated with PLN to install electricity as soon as possible. If electricity is installed, we will reinstall Wifi, God willing, everything will be connected to the center and it will automatically show the data for all the names of the recipients of social assistance, so there is no problem," he said. .

Regarding the cause of the fire, he admitted that he did not know because the police were still investigating. According to him, losses due to the incident could reach Rp1 billion.

"As for the cause of the fire, I can't answer yet, because the forensics team has come to check it out," he said.

Kendari Regional Secretary Nahwa Umar said that services to the community must continue while taking an inventory of the amount of losses due to the fire.

Nahwa asked the Social Service to record what was burned, including the facilities and infrastructure needed so that a budget was proposed through unexpected expenditures (BTT) for the rebuilding of the office, so that services to the community could be maximized.

"What is the name of the disaster, what do we want, everything has happened. The Head of the Social Service to be patient and services should not be interrupted, services must continue to run to the community," said Nahwa.