Bekasi Walkot Representative Praises Risma: There Is Added Value With Your Arrival

Minister of Social Affairs Tri Rismaharini in Bekasi (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - The Bekasi City Government, West Java, appreciates and supports the community empowerment program of the Ministry of Social Affairs by preparing the necessary facilities and facilities.

"What is done by Mrs. Risma (Minister of Social Affairs), from upstream to downstream we prepare. How prosperous Indonesia will be, today we start by supporting the Ministry of Social Affairs program," Deputy Mayor of Bekasi Tri Adhianto Tjahjono said while accompanying Social Minister Risma quoted by Antara, Friday, January 8. .

Tri said the Ministry of Social Affairs program not only moved people who were less fortunate economically but also empowered them according to their abilities and skills so that their lives would also change.

"We know that the condition of COVID-19 has a tremendous impact on the economy in Bekasi City. The unemployment rate of 10 percent is not enough to only touch the IDR 350 thousand aid that we provide to the community but also how to empower them," he said.

In Bekasi City, said Tri, the handling of Persons with Social Welfare Problems (PMKS) is still patterned on how to move the community so they are not on the road.

Then they are given the choice of whether to return to their hometown or to be facilitated, to be placed in the nearest social institution to be given job skills training.

"There is an added value with the arrival of Mrs. Risma. Later they will not only take part in training but also be facilitated with regard to their products, then the market will also be formed so that it is complete," he said.

Tri also assessed that the concept of building a flat in the area of the Pangudi Luhur Bekasi Social Rehabilitation Center which was promoted by the Ministry of Social Affairs was quite effective so that PMKS felt that they lived not in social institutions but in their own homes.

"Now the second is how it was that they lived as if they were not in a social institution, but in their own house. That's why the concept of building a flat, building a house with a rental system with a very low rental value is very helpful. once a resident, "he said.

In his visit to the Pangudi Luhur Bekasi Social Rehabilitation Center, Risma said that empowerment of residents with social welfare problems was carried out by optimizing economic activities in that location.

Starting from fish farming, workshop, welding, making compost, and cultivating hydroponic plants by creating a market at once.

"So we form the market at the same time so that their products have economic value. In the apartment area, we will also build stalls and other business places," said Risma.