Vice President Conveys 3 Strategies To Complete Extreme Poverty This Year

Vice President Ma'ruf Amin while chairing the Ministerial Level Meeting regarding poverty reduction at the Vice President's Palace in Jakarta, Thursday (22/2/2024). (ANTARA/Andi Firdaus)

JAKARTA - Vice President (Vice President) Ma'ruf Amin conveyed three government strategies in reducing poverty to 7.5 percent and extreme poverty to zero percent in 2024.

"First, so that ministries/agencies and local governments continue to improve their targets to reach poor families who have not received social assistance programs or social security programs," said Ma'ruf Amin while chairing the Ministerial Level Meeting regarding poverty reduction at the Vice Presidential Palace in Jakarta, reported by ANTARA, Thursday, February 22.

Efforts to improve the data of the target population, said the Vice President, refer to the Data on the Targeting the Acceleration of the Elimination of Extreme Poverty (P3KE) and the Integrated Social Welfare Data (DTKS) which continues to be matched.

The second, said the Vice President, continues to intervene specifically for social assistance programs, social security, and economic empowerment in poverty pockets and areas with high poverty levels such as in Papua, West Papua and East Nusa Tenggara, as well as areas with high poor populations such as Central Java, West Java, and East Java.

"Then the third, the distribution of additional programs besides regular programs such as rice assistance and BLT El-Nino which can be a special effort to accelerate poverty reduction," he said.

In addition to these three strategies, the Vice President also directs relevant ministries/agencies and local governments to ensure the accuracy of the number and time of program distribution, as well as prioritizing vulnerable groups such as single-elderly, persons with disabilities, migrant workers, and women heads of families.

"For this reason, ministries/agencies and local governments are also further strengthening coordination between institutions to ensure the complementarity of the program, as well as ensuring that there is an affirmation scheme to prioritize groups of women and youth who have not entered the labor market can access employment opportunities," he said.

The Vice President also emphasized that the distribution of social assistance can be realized immediately before the end of February 2024. This is to ensure that the impact of the distribution of social assistance is monitored in the Socio-Economic Survey (SUSENAS) carried out by the Central Statistics Agency in March 2024.