Iyos, A Skinny Man Who Sleeps Under A Flyover, Is Handled By The Tangerang City Social Service After Going Viral On Social Media

Screenshot of the thin man video under the Serpong area flyover

TANGERANG – Iyos (58), a middle-aged man with an alarming body condition. He looks very thin, his body shape is not like a man in general. His body is just bones covered with skin. He also lives in an inappropriate place, under the Kebon Nanas flyover, Tangerang City. Worrying.

Iyos recently became the attention of netizens after the video circulated on social media. He lives in a dirty, unhealthy, slum, far from proper place.

Seeing Iyos, Head of the Tangerang City Social Service (Dinsos) Mulyani said that his party was aware of Iyos' whereabouts. Mulyani said, she had sent her team to pick up the elderly man for treatment.

"We have received reports of displaced persons on Tuesday, August 2, 2022. After that, our agency has dispatched a Dinsos quick reaction team to handle the reports," said Mulyani when confirmed, Wednesday, August 3.

Iyos' condition at Tangerang Hospital/ Photo: IST

"We have brought an ambulance to the location of the man, and took him to the Tangerang City Hospital," he continued.

Mulyani also explained, based on the doctor's statement at the Tangerang City Hospital, that currently Iyos' condition has improved.

"His condition began to improve. At first he was a little short of breath," he said.

He said Mulyani would coordinate with the Social Service Office of Cisarua, Bogor Regency. Because the Iyos family is in the West Java area.

"The man claimed to have children in Cianjur with the names Neng Roh and Asep (Neg Roh's husband). Iyos also has a younger brother named Ade in Cisarua," he said.

According to Mulyani, his party will continue to serve and assist to ensure that Iyos has been handled by the right person.

"This has become the Social Service SOP in dealing with abandoned people in the Tangerang City environment. However, if the displaced person is not found by his family, or no longer has a family, the Social Service also has a halfway house to facilitate a more decent and productive life," he concluded. Article 34 of the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia states "The Poor and Abandoned Children are cared for by the State" and furthermore in Article 27 Paragraph (2) states "That every citizen has the right to work and a decent living for humanity".

Iyos received treatment from the government after the video circulated on social media.