Surabaya City Government Outsourced Personnel Removed From Low Income Community Category

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JAKARTA - Commission D for Welfare at the DPRD of Surabaya City responded to the abolition of outsourcing or outsourced labor within the local city government from the low-income category (MBR).

"So that outsourced workers who want to send their children to school can no longer enter the MBR route," said Surabaya DPRD Commission D member Badru Tamam in Surabaya, Thursday, April 28, quoted from Antara.

In fact, the Surabaya City Government provides many policy interventions for Surabaya residents who fall into the MBR category, ranging from direct cash and non-cash assistance, free schools, food assistance and others.

Badru explained, one of the criteria for entering the MBR category is that each family has an income of only IDR 4 million per month. Meanwhile, the majority of outsourced workers in the Surabaya City Government have an income or salary of more than IDR 4 million.

"On that basis, the Surabaya City Government then removed the MBR category for outsourced workers," he said.

However, he continued, his party asked the Surabaya City Government to continue to pay attention to outsourcing even though they are no longer in the MBR category, especially to be assisted for their children who want to enter public schools.

Mayor of Surabaya Eri Cahyadi previously said that the Surabaya City Government targeted the number of MBR in Surabaya to decrease from 976 thousand to 300 thousand by the end of 2022.

"To realize this target, the Surabaya City Government is synergizing with the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) of East Java Province regarding the mapping of pockets or the distribution map of MBR households in Surabaya," said Eri.

According to him, based on the presentation of Surabaya MBR data, which consists of individual data and household data, it is known that there are still incompletenesses.

So, he continued, to resolve this, after the joint leave and Eid holiday 1443 Hijriah, the city government will speed up the process of updating or updating data.

"We will determine a timetable for updating MBR data with a target for completion in July. This is to make it easier for us to know the position or condition of MBR. For that, we will provide training to data updating officers before going to the field," he said.