Ahead Of Lebaran, Bansos From The Central Government Is Ready To Be Distributed Massively

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JAKARTA - Five days before Eid Al-Fitr, the government will distribute social assistance on a large scale to residents affected by the corona virus or COVID-19 who have not received assistance from the government.

"Five days prior to this Eid, there will be a large distribution of distribution. Last night there was coordination between the Coordinating Minister for PMK, the Minister of Social Affairs, and the Managing Director of PT Pos," Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture (Menko PMK) Muhadjir Effendi told reporters Monday, May 18th.

Muhadjir explained, there were several things discussed, namely the problem of the availability of aid funds, data on beneficiary families, and its distribution to people in need.

To achieve a wider target of social assistance distribution, he said, Pos Indonesia will continue to work as usual during the Eid Al-Fitr without holidays. The social assistance from the Ministry of Social Affairs is targeted to be distributed as much as 80 percent to people in need.

"Of the 9 million target KPM (beneficiary families), it is hoped that 8.3 million can be channeled," said Muhadjir, adding that the rest is likely to be distributed within two weeks.

The reason is because the residents who need social assistance live are far away and the terrain is so difficult. "The longest, according to the Managing Director of PT Pos, will take two weeks," he said.

People proactively ask social assistance

Previously, President Joko Widodo asked the public to ask RT and RW and village heads if they had not received social assistance from the government in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

"I hope the community will also continue to ask their RT and RW or village heads," said Jokowi in a press statement broadcast on the Presidential Secretariat YouTube account, Saturday, May 16.

The former Governor of DKI Jakarta also emphasized to the Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture (Menko PMK), the Minister of Social Affairs, and the Minister for Villages, Disadvantaged Areas and Transmigration (Mendes PDTT) to accelerate the process of distributing village cash transfers (BLT) or cash social assistance. by cutting the cumbersome bureaucracy.

Moreover, until now, said Jokowi, the direct cash assistance has not been entirely delivered to people who need it. For village BLT, which was taken from village funds, only 15 percent had been distributed.

"This means that there are still 85 percent that have not been received by the public. Then for BST (cash social assistance) this is also more or less, from the information I received only about 25 percent has been received by the public. So there are still 75 percent that have not been received," he said. .