Ganjar Denies Wild Issues Will Remove Social Assistance: Who Talks About? Just Fears

Presidential Candidate Ganjar Pranowo after visiting a cigarette factory in Bantul, Yogyakarta, Tuesday (19/12/2023). (ANTARA/Narda Margaretha Sinambela)

YOGYAKARTA - The couple Ganjar Pranowo and Mahfud MD promised to perfect social assistance (bansos) and distribute other assistance to make it more targeted and precise.

This was conveyed by Ganjar to dismiss the slanted issue related to Ganjar-Mahfud who was reluctant to continue the social assistance program or social assistance program.

"So, the story (eliminates social assistance) who says who, it's just a gimmick to scare," said Ganjar in Bantul, Yogyakarta as reported by ANTARA, Tuesday, December 18.

Ganjar assessed that the social assistance program is the state's obligation to ensure the people are prosperous. The reason is, social assistance itself is a mandate from the state budget that has been set with the government and the DPR.

Therefore, the social assistance program has been running well, just continue and be perfected. On the other hand, Ganjar-Mahfud promised to improve the shortage of the Social Assistance program so far.

One of them, said Ganjar, was inaccurate in distribution, resulting in chaos in the community.

There are a lot of people, what can social assistance there be, here it can be different. Therefore, we will clean up these things, and make them even more advanced," he said.

One of the breakthrough programs to solve this problem is the Sakti KTP which combines the population record system with the role of digital technology.

This Sakti ID card, with technology devices, can distribute and detail population data digitally. Thus, the identity of the population is also subject to sectoral disbursement, useful not only for the distribution of social assistance, but also other developments such as subsidized fertilizer allotment, educational assistance, and others.

Sakti's ID card is a social assistance digitization system in order to expand and facilitate public access to information related to social assistance and other welfare improvement programs.

KTP Sakti will destroy illegal levies practices, which often occur during the distribution of social assistance and avoid duplication of community data, which require integrated assistance in one system. Ganjar-Mahfud will create a superior and more prosperous Indonesia," concluded Ganjar.