Ensuring Right Targeted Assistance, MoSA Opens Community Participation to Monitor BLT Cooking Oil Distributions

JAKARTA (11 April 2022) - The Ministry of Social Affairs (MoSA) ensures that there is layered supervision to ensure that the distribution of BLT Cooking Oil is right on target. Using digital technology-based applications, the public can also participate in conducting monitoring.

As directed by the Minister of Social Affairs Tri Rismaharini, MoSA has developed a digital-based system, that is cekbansos.kemensos.go.id. The application can be accessed by the public by submitting the name according to the ID card.

"The public can participate in monitoring by accessing the cekbansos.kemensos.go.id site. It includes data on PKH and BPNT beneficiaries which includes BLT Cooking Oil recipients," said Secretary-General of the MoSA Harry Hikmat in Jakarta (10/04).

The public can check whether they are registered as beneficiaries through the app. The Secretary-General stated that the Cek Bansos App was also equipped with a "proposing" and "rebutting" menu.

"So the person concerned can propose if he finds an exclusion error (eligible but does not receive assistance) and refute if he finds an indication of inclusion error (not eligible but received assistance)," he said.

Harry's explanation was a response to a question from one of the speakers in a dialogue program at a national private television station. Harry ensured that MoSA had provided various mechanisms and means to ensure that the BLT Cooking Oil was right on target.

MoSA is not only optimizing technology support in setting up Cek Bansos app but also in considering the feasibility of beneficiaries with Geo-Tagging technology for spatial data from satellite imagery.

This technology allows a front view of the beneficiary's house to be obtained. "If it is known that the area of ​​the house is up to 100 square meters, then they are included in the group of affluent families," said Harry.

“We also use Geo-Tagging technology for spatial data from satellite imagery. With this technology, it is possible to know the condition of the house. In areas where satellite imagery is inadequate, we are assisted by Pejuang Muda who also carries out tagging by visiting and taking pictures of houses," he said.

Harry also invited the public to use a digital-based complaint handling system that had been prepared by the government, such as the national public service complaint handling system. This service accommodates all public aspirations and complaints that are integrated nationally through www.lapor.go.id.

LAPOR! has been established as Indonesia's National Complaint Handling Management System (SP4N) based on Presidential Regulation Number 76 of 2013 and Minister of State Apparatus Empowerment and Bureaucracy Reform Regulation Number 3 of 2015.

"The national public service complaint handling system can guarantee the public rights so that their complaints can be followed up by the relevant agencies," he said.

To ensure accountability in the management of social assistance, it is also accompanied by an internal monitoring system, namely the Internal Government Supervisory Apparatus (APIP) and the Inspector General. Then also from external supervision such as from the Financial and Development Supervisory Agency (BPKP) and the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK).

 "We are also supported by law enforcement officers such as the Police, the Prosecutor's Office, the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), and even Indonesian Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Center (PPATK). They are involved in ensuring and early detecting any irregularities," said Harry.

According to Harry, the distribution of BLT Cooking Oil using direct cash transfers through PT Pos Indonesia is also part of the preventive effort against fraud.

BLT Cooking Oil reached the target of 20.65 million beneficiaries (KPM), namely 18.8 million BPNT KPM and 1.85 million PKH KPM outside BPNT recipients. The assistance is a buffer to help increase people's purchasing power amid rising prices entering the month of Ramadan and ahead of Eid al-Fitr.

Previously, President Joko Widodo ceremonially launched the BLT Cooking Oil program by handing over cash to the beneficiaries at the Angso Duo Market, Jambi, Thursday (7/4).

In the launch of the BLT Cooking Oil, 100 beneficiaries received assistance worth IDR 300.000/beneficiary. The President requested that the assistance be used for useful purposes, either for capital funding or buying basic needs including cooking oil whose prices are currently increasing.

The amount of BLT Cooking Oil assistance is Rp. 100,000 per month which is handed over at once for three months, namely April, May and June. With the assistance provided, people who meet the requirements will receive a total of IDR 300,000 in April 2022.

BLT Cooking Oil is an addition to the regular assistance that has been received through PKH and BPNT by targeting 2.5 million street vendors and food stall entrepreneurs. The assistance will be distributed by the TNI-Polri.

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