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Director General of PFM: We Must Work Together to Handle the Poverty
BANDUNG REGENCY (9 October 2021) - Director General
of Poverty Handling, Asep Sasa Purnama attended a Focus Group Discussion (FGD)
with the theme "The Role of the Integrated Referral Service System (SLRT)
in Strengthening KPM Capacity" at the SLRT Sabilulungan building, Bandung
Regency, Java Province West (9/10).
The
manager of the Sabilulungan SLRT, Nia Nindhiawati, said that the poverty rate
in Bandung Regency currently reaches around 6.9%. Efforts are being made to
deal with the extreme poor in Bandung Regency by reducing expenditure,
increasing income, regional development, and village assistance.
Meanwhile,
the Director General of PFM, in the event said that poverty handling must
use the principle of Sabilulungan (gotong royong/community services). To
eradicate poverty, various parties must be supported to work together and
unite. In addition, the Director General of PFM hopes that in Bandung Regency
the Beneficiary Families become "Welfare Families". "There are some
efforts managed by KPM to improve the economic standard."
For
the continuation, the Directorate General of PFM and SLRT Sabilulungan agreed
to follow up on poverty alleviation in Bandung Regency, one of which will be
the creation of a communication forum for KPM. The goal is that KPM can be
connected so that new ideas emerge to develop themselves to increase their economic stability.
"We
are very confident that in alleviating extreme poverty in Bandung Regency, it
will be much more effective if we work together in this regard," said the
Director General of PFM.