When He Became Social Minister, He Immediately Asked The KPK For An Audit, Risma: Wants To Know What Needs To Be Fixed

Social Minister Tri Rismaharini/ANTARA

JAKARTA - Social Minister Tri Rismaharini said that he immediately requested an audit from a number of institutions including the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) when he took office.

This is done to find out what needs to be improved, especially since he did not know the conditions at the Ministry of Social Affairs before.

"At the beginning, frankly, I didn't know the conditions at the Ministry of Social Affairs. From there (because, ed) I used to ask for an audit every time I went in and out. Why, I wanted to know what had to be improved and what were the shortcomings," said Risma at the event. discussion aired on the KPK RI YouTube, Thursday, August 19.

From the various audits carried out, Risma finally found out that the problems in the provision of social assistance (bansos) were related to recipient data. So, he immediately moved to carry out improvements by integrating data from the four directorates general in his ministry.

"So initially there were four data. DTKS itself, data on non-cash food assistance or people who know basic necessities, then there is data on cash assistance, and data on PKH," said the former Surabaya Mayor.

From the data pooling, Risma said there were 193 million recipient data, which was then continued by matching the data with the Population Identification Number (NIK). This was done because he received input from the KPK to be matched with population data.

"Then we match it with population data, which matches with population data, only 155 million are left," he said.

This data matching, said Risma, also revealed that there were multiple beneficiaries. "It means that one person in one aid received two (assistance, ed) some received three (assistance, ed)," he said.

So, from all these findings, the Ministry of Social Affairs was finally able to put to sleep around 21 million data on social assistance recipients.

"We map according to the rules, some are allowed to be doubled, so PKH with basic necessities is allowed, concurrently is allowed. But there are some that cannot, like BST, cannot be doubled," he concluded.