TPN Ganjar-Mahfud Worried That The Distribution Of Social Assistance Is Politicized, TKN Prabowo-Gibran: The Minister Is From PDIP

Illustration. Social assistance for food packages from the center was prepared by workers in Tangerang City, Banten, Saturday 9 May 2020. (Between Photo-Fauzan)

JAKARTA - The Prabowo-Gibran National Campaign Team (TKN) questioned the concerns of the Ganjar-Mahfud MD National Winning Team regarding the distribution of social assistance or social assistance during the 2024 election campaign.

According to a member of the TKN Expert Council Prabowo-Gibran, Dradjad Wibowo, this concern is baseless considering that the Minister of Social Affairs (Mensos) Tri Rismaharini is a PDI-P cadre (PDIP) carrying a presidential and vice presidential candidate number 3, Ganjar Pranowo-Mahfud MD.

"If the candidate pair 03 is worried about politicization and so on, will the Minister of Social Affairs be Mbak Risma from PDIP?" said Dradjad, Thursday, January 4.

The chairman of the PAN Expert Council explained that social assistance is a state program that has been included in the APBN. Where the distribution is the authority of the government as an executive.

"The problem is how much, where it is distributed, to whom and when, it is the authority of the government. So we leave it entirely to the government to decide," explained Dradjad.

Previously, PDIP had asked for a postponement of the distribution of social assistance during the campaign because it was worried that it would be politicized. Today, PDIP Secretary General Hasto Kristiyanto said that social assistance really needs to be distributed according to the programmed. He also asked for social assistance to be channeled without politicization.

Because, he said, the PDI-P is a party that wants to protect the small people as the theme of the third National Working Meeting (Rakernas) with the theme of the Poor and Abandoned Children Protected by the State.

"The PDI-P places the importance of all social policies carried out by the state through synergies between the DPR RI and the presidency to immediately reduce extreme poverty in 2024," said Hasto at a press conference at the PDIP DPP office, Central Jakarta, Tuesday, January 2.

According to Hasto, it is the responsibility of the state in helping the poor and the PDI-P will support the Minister of Social Affairs Tri Rismaharini in realizing people's commitments.

"It is carried out as well as possible by ensuring that there is no politicization of social assistance and then social assistance is actually used as an instrument of partiality to the little people," said the Secretary of the TPN Ganjar-Mahfud.