Anies Baswedan Brings Good News To Jakarta Residents, Tomorrow Cash Social Assistance Is Liquid

DKI Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan (Photo: @aniesbaswedan)

JAKARTA - The DKI Jakarta Provincial Government has budgeted Rp604 billion for the cash social assistance (BTS) program for residents affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. DKI Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan said the cash distribution would be carried out tomorrow.

"The transfer from the DKI provincial government will be carried out tomorrow through the beneficiary's account so that they can immediately receive it in their respective accounts," he said, at Monas, Gambir, Central Jakarta, Sunday, July 18.

Anies explained that based on data from the DKI Provincial Government, there were 1,844,833 people who were included in the list of BST recipients. Around 1 million residents will get it from the DKI Provincial Government, while around 837 thousand others will get it from the Central Government through the Ministry of Social Affairs.

The former Minister of Education and Culture also explained that later there would be assistance distributed by Polda Metro Jaya and Kodam Jaya.

"We are in Jakarta, the Forkompinda is compact, using the same data, the same vaccination, the same target, the social assistance data reference is the same, so the targets do not coincide," he said.

"We make sure this goes well starting tomorrow. All activities will run, including the distribution of rice starting tomorrow," he continued.

Based on the official website corona.jakarta.go.id, there are two schemes for distributing cash assistance for residents of DKI Jakarta. The first distribution is carried out by the central government. The funds are sourced from the State Revenue and Expenditure Budget (APBN) and channeled through PT Pos Indonesia (Persero).

The second scheme is that the distribution is carried out by the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government using the allocation of funds from the APBD. In this scheme, cash assistance will be channeled through a Bank DKI account in the amount of IDR 300 thousand per month.

As of Sunday, July 18, at 3:32 p.m., there were 1,007,379 family cards (KK) that had been registered as BST recipients of the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government.

The details are 55,346 in Central Jakarta, 210,344 in North Jakarta, 79,346 in West Jakarta. Then 160,733 in South Jakarta, 497,490 in East Jakarta and 4,120 in the Thousand Islands.