Asking Local Government To Actively Verify Bansos Data, Social Minister Risma: Look At Papua, Can Fix Data 100 Percent

Illustration- PT Pos Indonesia officers take a photo of the recipients of the Cash Social Assistance (BST) (Photo: ANTARA)

JAKARTA - Social Minister Tri Rismaharini (Risma) asked local governments to actively verify and validate data on recipients of social assistance (bansos).

In accordance with Law Number 13 of 2011 concerning the handling of the poor, data for the poor comes from local governments and local governments are authorized to verify and validate the data.

"We ask the regions to, if it's not enough, just propose it. Don't think that Papua far away has not corrected the data, because there is one district that has corrected the data 100 percent," said Social Minister Risma at the Ministry of Social Affairs, Jakarta, Antara, Tuesday, August 3.

In 2020, for example, there are around 15,000 potential recipients of social assistance proposed from Papua Province. Furthermore, in 2021 the number will increase to 28,000.

"Why did it go up? Because we fixed it," he said.

Risma stated that during her tenure as Minister of Social Affairs there were approximately 14 million data that had been corrected by local governments.

He also said that the local government could propose increasing the number of recipients of social assistance if there were still residents in the area who needed assistance.

"Please, if you want additional proposals, and there are lots of regions that have proposed additions," he said.