Vice President Ma'ruf Asks Ganjar Pranowo And 5 Regents To Coordinate Formulate Programs To Resolve Extreme Poverty

Vice President Ma'ruf Amin prepares to chair the Coordination Meeting on Extreme Poverty Reduction at the Gradhika Bakti Praja Building Semarang, Thursday (7/10/2021). (Photo: Antara)

JAKARTA - Vice President Ma'ruf Amin has instructed all levels of the Central Java Provincial Government to improve data on residents with extreme poor conditions. This is so that the Government's program to solve extreme poverty can be targeted to groups of people in need, said the Vice President in a statement from the Bureau. Press, Media and Information of the Vice President's Secretariat (BPMI Setwapres), when chairing the Coordination Meeting on Extreme Poverty Reduction in Semarang, was reported by Antara, Thursday, October 7. Until 2024, we can use more up-to-date and accurate data on extreme poor households," said the Vice President at the Gradhika Bakti Praja Building, Semarang. . However, the vice president asked the DTKS, especially in priority areas, to be immediately updated. The vice president asked the Governor of Central Java Ganjar Pranowo and the five regents of priority areas to coordinate with each other to formulate programs to solve extreme poverty in these priority areas.

The five regional heads in the priority districts are the Regent of Brebes Idza Priyanti, Deputy Regent of Pemalang Mansur Hidayat, Regent of Banyumas Achmad Husein, Regent of Kebumen Arif Sugiyanto and Plh. Banjarnegara Regent Syamsudin "I ask you all to study various programs and then try to make these programs accepted by extreme poor households," said the Vice President. 124,270 people in Pemalang, 116,330 people in Banyumas, 92,190 people in Kebumen and 67,010 people in Banjarnegara. The vice president said the data must be updated immediately so that the poverty alleviation program can be right on target and the extreme poverty rate in the five priority districts reaches zero percent by the end of 2021. "This is a combination with five regencies in Central Java, which are targeted until late 2021, so that the five regencies will no longer have extreme poverty," said the vice president.