Minister Of Human Rights Offers IDR 100 Million Per Village Program

Minister of Human Rights, Natalius Pigai during a working meeting with Commission XIII of the DPR at the Jakarta Parliament Complex, Thursday, October 31. (Nailin-VOI)

JAKARTA - Human Rights Minister Natalius Pigai offered a program of Rp. 100 million per village for the Village Cares for Human Rights Program during a working meeting with Commission XIII of the DPR. The program is claimed to be a step to ground human rights.

Pigai claims to have monitored as many as 83 thousand groups spread across all villages in Indonesia. Each group will be given funds worth Rp. 100 million.

"Of the 83 thousand groups on the rural basis. If you say Rp. 100 million per village, you need Rp. 8.03 million," Pigai said in a meeting with Commission XIII at the Parliament Complex, Senayan, Jakarta, Thursday, October 31.

According to Pigai, this program can be implemented with the efforts to form each human rights office throughout Indonesia. As for the formation of the regional office, Pigai said 2,544 staff needed it.

"With a total of 2,544 staff, spending on salaries and employee allowances alone requires Rp1.3 trillion," said Pigai.

Pigai also said that currently the structure he has formed only contains about 188 staff. The formation of the Regional Office, he said, could be realized with the support of the DPR, of course related to the budget.

As is known, the Minister of Human Rights previously requested an additional budget from Rp64 billion to Rp20 trillion.