If The BLT Used To Be Entered Into The Account, Now The Raja Ampat Regency Government Distributes It Directly To The Ayau Archipelago Residents

Deputy Regent of Raja Ampat Orideko Iriano Burdam (standing) with the Acting Governor of West Papua (sitting) during a dialogue with the community on Fani Island. ANTARA/Ernes Broning Kakisina

WEST PAPUA - The Raja Ampat district government, West Papua Province ensured the process of distributing direct cash assistance or BLT for the community in the Ayau Islands through banks that went directly to the community.

Deputy Regent of Raja Ampat, Orideko Iriano Burdam said this policy was carried out so that people in the archipelago no longer needed to come to the city, thus incurring expensive travel costs.

"This is a form of equitable government service where the government is present to remote areas and remote islands to overcome community difficulties," said Orideko in Waisai, West Papua, quoted from Antara, Sunday, August 14.

Orideko explained that initially the BLT was distributed to residents of the Ayau Archipelago, which is located in the border area of Indonesia with neighboring Palau, through the Regional Development Bank, or also known as Bank Papua.

He said that from there the assistance went directly into the accounts of the people who were BLT beneficiaries.

According to Orideko, people in the outer islands of the Ayau Archipelago if they want to withdraw the BLT, they must go to Waisai, the capital of the Raja Ampat district. Because there is not a single bank in the Ayuu Islands.

This, he said, would make it difficult for the people of the Ayau Archipelago because they had to go to the city with high transportation costs.

Therefore, Orideko said, the local government is working with the banking sector to go directly to the villages in the Ayau Islands archipelago to distribute the aid.