Jokowi Orders Social Assistance To Be Distributed Immediately To Communities Affected By Emergency PPKM

Residents show cash social assistance money or BST after taking it at a Bank DKI ATM, Jakarta, Tuesday (20/7/2021). (BETWEEN PHOTOS/Rivan Awal Lingga/aww.)

JAKARTA - In implementing the Emergency PPKM, the government has also prepared social assistance for affected communities. Indonesian President Joko Widodo has ordered the relevant ministers to immediately distribute social assistance to reduce the impact.

"I have ordered the relevant ministers to immediately distribute the social assistance to eligible citizens," said the President when giving a press statement on the Latest Developments of Emergency PPKM, which was watched virtually on the Presidential Secretariat's Youtube channel in Jakarta, Tuesday, July 20.

On this occasion, the President said that since the implementation of Emergency PPKM 3 to 20 July 2021 in Java and Bali, data on the addition of cases and the occupancy rate of hospital beds have decreased.

The President said that if the trend of cases continued to decline, on July 26, 2021, the government would open it in stages.

The President said to ease the burden on the affected communities, the government allocated an additional social protection budget of Rp55.21 trillion, in the form of cash assistance, namely Cash Social Assistance (BST), Village Cash Direct Assistance (BLT), Family Hope Program (PKH), and basic food assistance. internet quota assistance and continued electricity subsidies.

The government also provides incentives for informal micro-enterprises of IDR 1.2 million for around 1 million micro-enterprises.