JAKARTA - Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) Arifin Tasrif opened his voice regarding the discourse on distributing rice cookers for free.
According to him, currently there is no budget provided for the procurement of free rice cookers for the public.
"There is no budget yet," he told the media quoted on Wednesday, November 30.
Arifin added that the program's discourse still requires further investigation because it will also involve other ministries and institutions.
"That still needs further investigation, because it also involves other K/L (ministers and institutions)," continued Arifin.
Previously, this discourse was put forward by the Sub-Coordinator of the Electricity Business Commercial Relations Facility, the Directorate of Electricity Entrepreneurship Development, the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, Edy Pratiknyo.
Edy said that the government is currently discussing the discourse of distributing 680,000 rice cookers to 450 VA electricity customers.
According to Edy, later this rice treatment assistance will be distributed throughout Indonesia through the State Budget of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources in 2023.
The Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources in terms of distributing this assistance will utilize data belonging to the Ministry of Social Affairs with a program package value of IDR 500,000 per beneficiary family (KPM).
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