JAKARTA - Vice President (Vice President) Ma'ruf Amin asked all stakeholders to seriously strengthen coordination and synergy to achieve the zero percent target of extreme poverty by 2024.

This was conveyed by the Vice President at the event 'Strengthening Development and Empowerment of Village Communities Towards Stunting-Free Indonesia and Extreme Poverty' in Ternate, Friday, May 12.

"I ask all parties to really seriously strengthen cross-institutional coordination, as well as sharpen poverty reduction intervention activities in various sectors," he said, quoted by Antara, Friday, May 12.

The Vice President mentioned two main strategies to realize zero percent extreme poverty, namely increasing income and reducing expenses.

He asked village assistants, especially in North Maluku, to increase their role in overcoming extreme poverty.

"Village assistants should help village heads and apparatus in strengthening program convergence in poverty pockets, especially the concentration area of extreme poor families," he said.

Meanwhile, the Secretary General of the Ministry of Villages for Disadvantaged Regional Development and Transmigration, Taufik Madjid, revealed that efforts to realize zero percent extreme poverty in 2024 have now been carried out through the distribution of village funds into village cash accounts.

"Through village funds channeled directly to village treasury accounts, villages in Indonesia have contributed greatly, one of which is to achieve zero percent or close to zero percent extreme poverty by 2024," said Taufik.

Present on the occasion, North Maluku Governor Abdul Gani and the North Maluku Provincial Leadership Coordination Forum and Secretary General of the Ministry of Villages and PDTT Taufik Madjid.

Meanwhile, the Vice President was accompanied by the Head of the Vice Presidential Secretariat Ahmad Erani Yustika, Deputy for Government Policy Support and National Insight Velix Wanggai, Deputy for Administration Sapto Harjono Wahjoe Sedjati, Special Staff of the Vice President Masduki Baidlowi, Robikin Emhas, and Zumrotul Mukafta, as well as the Vice Presidential Expert Team Farhat Brachma.


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