Coordinating Minister For Human Development And Culture Muhadjir Calls Alleviation Of Extreme Poverty In Heavy Indonesia

Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture Muhadjir Effendy

JAKARTA - Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture (Menko PMK) Muhadjir Effendy admits that extreme poverty alleviation in Indonesia is very heavy and the cooperation of all stakeholders is needed. For this reason, Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture Muhadjir asked all parties to optimize three programs that are the main key in supporting extreme poverty alleviation efforts. "To achieve the target of eradicating extreme poverty, there are three key programs that need to be optimized," said Muhadjir Effendy in his statement quoted by ANTARA, Monday, February 13. Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture explained that the first was through social assistance and subsidies in order to reduce the expenditure burden of the extreme poor. Second, through community empowerment in order to increase income for extreme poor people. Third, the development of basic service infrastructure in order to reduce the number of poverty pockets. This, he said, is in accordance with Presidential Instruction Number 4 of 2022 concerning the Acceleration of Extreme Poverty Elimination. "Of course, all parties realize that eliminating extreme poverty is a very tough challenge. For this reason, integrated and synergy programs as well as inter-ministerial/institutional cooperation are expected to be able to multiply the power to realize such targets," he said. Muhadjir added that in Presidential Instruction Number 4 of 2022, the President assigned the Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture to establish priority locations and targets for achieving extreme poverty erasures. In addition, coordinating, synchronizing, and controlling ministry/institutional programs in an effort to reduce the burden on public spending and reduce poverty pockets. Then, carry out integrated monitoring and evaluation together with related ministries and institutions.

Thus, the Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture invites all parties from ministries/agencies as well as local governments to increase collaboration in supporting efforts to eliminate extreme poverty. The government, he said, targets to eliminate extreme poverty from four percent to zero percent by 2024. "President Joko Widodo has assigned all stakeholders to commit to eliminating extreme poverty six years earlier than the SDGs target by 2030, to 2024," he said.