The Case Of Living Chicken Included In The Social Assistance Program In Cianjur Is Investigated By The Police

Kapolres Cianjur, West Java, AKBP Mochamad Rifai. (ANTARA / Ahmad Fikri)

JAKARTA - The Cianjur Police, West Java, dispatched a team to Pagelaran District, to investigate the case of the distribution of living chickens in the distribution of the Ministry of Social Affairs' Non-Cash Food Assistance (BPNT) program, which should have been in the form of chicken meat according to the general guidelines of the ministry.

"We have sent a team to the field to investigate the replacement of chicken meat commodity into living chicken received by KPM in Pagelaran District. If violations are found, of course we will follow up," said Head of Cianjur Police, Grand Commissioner Adjutant (AKBP) Mochamada Rifai, reported by Antara, Thursday, January 28.

His party will investigate the causes, including gathering information from the witnesses who received benefits who objected the replacement of these commodities. Including his party will summon a supplier that supplies living chickens to e-Waroeng, which has been appointed as the distributor for the central government program.

"We will investigate it thoroughly, if it is not in accordance with general guidelines and this is a violation, of course various parties will be questioned before determining as a suspect," he said.

Previously, six thousand Beneficiary Families (KPM) of the Ministry of Social Affairs' Non-Cash Food Assistance (BPNT) program in Pagelaran District, Cianjur, West Java, received living chickens for animal protein commodities, which are usually in the form of chicken meat or beef.

Head of the Social Empowerment Division of the Cianjur Social Service (Dinsos), Surya, said that he had just received a report regarding the chicken meat commodity that should have been received by KPM was replaced with living chicken, so that his party would immediately follow up on this because it was not in the general guidelines for the BPNT program.

"This is the first time that a commodity received by KPM has been replaced with living chicken instead of chicken meat . We have just received a report regarding this matter, but as long as no one has objections, it may not be a problem. But we will follow up, regarding 6,000 more KPM receiving living chicken from e-Waroeng in Pagelaran District," he said.

Surya explained, based on general guidelines from the Indonesian Ministry of Social Affairs, each KPM received assistance of IDR 200,000 through a special card which would later be exchanged for groceries on a service network called e-Waroeng.

The assistance can be exchanged into four commodities, rice as a source of carbohydrates, eggs, beef, chicken and fish as a source of animal protein, nuts or tofu as vegetable protein and fruit as a source of vitamins, where each commodity is supplied to the supplier e-Waroeng.