Social Minister Asked Prabowo To Distribute Social Assistance Right On Target

Social Minister Syaifullah Yusuf during a meeting at Commission VIII DPR/PHOTO: Nailin In Saroh-VOI

JAKARTA - Minister of Social Affairs Saifullah Yusuf alias Gus Ipul revealed a number of directives from President Prabowo Subianto to the Ministry of Social Affairs (Kemensos). One of them is the distribution of social assistance (bansos) to people who are right on target.

"Our first strategic challenge and issue was ordered by Pak Prabowo to us, namely targeted social assistance, integrated single data matching, which anticipates the dynamics of verification and validation which in the field is quite dynamic, the speed of accuracy and feedback for evaluation of aid distribution," said Gus Ipul at the DPR building, Tuesday, November 12.

Second, the collaboration in the implementation of social welfare. The Ministry of Social Affairs, he said, was asked to integrate joint intervention movements between ministries of institutions and local governments, the involvement of the private sector and philanthropy.

"In this case, such as Baznas and so on, the allocation of DAK and deconcentration funds for local governments," he said.

Third, the fulfillment of service standards for at least social affairs. Starting from the standardization of the quality of social welfare implementation, the ratio of availability of the Ministry of Social Affairs centers throughout Indonesia, and local government efforts in fulfilling limited human resources.

Fourth, is the dependence of social assistance recipients. Gus Ipul said, recently there has been a low graduation that has been completed from vulnerability and the emergence of a demotive phenomenon due to enjoying social assistance.

"Then the last is the uncertainty of the future or the age of life that continues to increase. Where the number of elderly people continues to grow," said Gus Ipul.

"Then there is a middle class phenomenon that goes down in class and the need for adaptive social protection against disaster events," he added.