YOGYAKARTA - Indonesian President Joko Widodo inaugurated a cash assistance program for street vendors (PKL) and small stall businesses in Malioboro, Yogyakarta, Saturday. In this event, Jokowi was accompanied by the Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto, the Governor of DIY Sri Sultan Hamengku Buwono X, and the Mayor of Yogyakarta Haryadi Suyuti.
"By saying 'Bismillahirrahmanirrahim' the cash assistance for street vendors and small stalls through the TNI and Polri I declare begins," said Jokowi in front of traders and visitors on Jalan Malioboro, Yogyakarta.
The President and Coordinating Minister Airlangga then symbolically handed over cash assistance to a number of street vendors representatives in Malioboro. "This assistance was first started in the Malioboro area," said Jokowi.
The cash assistance, said Jokowi, will later be earmarked for as many as 1 million street vendors and small stall businesses in Indonesia with the amount of each aid worth IDR 1.2 million.
Regarding whether the assistance was sufficient or not, the President also tried to ask the street vendors in the Malioboro area.
"Not good enough? Rp1,200,000 according to our calculations is enough," said the former governor of DKI Jakarta as reported by Antara.
The chairman of the Malioboro Tri Dharma PKL Paguyuban Cooperative, Rudiarto, appreciated and thanked the cash assistance in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic situation which was accompanied by the implementation of the Policy for Enforcement of Community Activity Restrictions (PPKM). "We, on behalf of the entire community of street vendors, carriages, and rickshaws in the Malioboro area are very grateful and very grateful," said Rudiarto.
Jokowi and Airlangga Hartarto hope that the social assistance for street vendors can ease the burden in the midst of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
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