Social Minister Risma: Local Government Must Continue To Actively Improve DKTS So That Social Assistance Distribution Is Right On Target

Minister of Social Affairs Tri Rismaharini. (Photo: Doc. Antara)

JAKARTA - Social Minister Tri Rismaharini asked the Regional Government (Pemda) to continue to actively improve the Integrated Social Welfare Data (DKTS) so that the distribution of social assistance (bansos) can be right on target. According to Law number 13 of 2011 concerning the Handling of the Poor, local governments are required to carry out poverty data updating, the process starts from village deliberations or sub-district deliberations, then tierely rises upwards," said Social Minister Risma in a written statement, quoted from Antara, Saturday, June 24. Risma said that the local government and its staff up to the village or sub-district level have full authority in determining who is feasible and who is not worthy of receiving social assistance. The Ministry of Social Affairs does not carry out direct data, but establishes data whose updating process is carried out by the regions. Currently, I ratify the data every month. The first and second week we are waiting for data from the regions. The third week is for verification, and the fourth week for ratification," he said.

According to him, there are still district or city governments that are less active in carrying out data updating, so that the data received by the Ministry of Social Affairs is not in accordance with the real situation in the regions. "The poverty data is dynamic, some move, die, some may have increased their economy so that it is no longer feasible to receive assistance, for that I ask the local government to seriously oversee the data updating process," said Risma.

To encourage the improvement of poverty data and improve the accuracy of the distribution of social assistance assistance, innovation has been carried out by activating the 'follow' and'resistance' features in the Social Assistance Check application. "With this feature, people can participate in controlling data updates. Community participation is also important to improve the accuracy of the data update process so as to assist local government tasks in accordance with the provisions of Law No.13 of 2011," said the Minister of Social Affairs.