MEDAN CITY (November 19, 2021) - Minister of Social Affairs, Tri Rismaharini made a working visit in the context of the delivery of Social Assistance in North Sumatra Province which took place at Social Rehabilitation Center “Bahagia” in Medan. In this activity, the Ministry of Social Affairs symbolically handed over assistance including Social Assistance for People who Lived in Uninhabitable Houses (RS-Rutilahu) represented by the beneficiary families (KPM) of Serdang Berdagai and Deli Serdang as well as other Social Assistance such as ATENSI and PKH Graduation (19/11).

 

On that occasion, the Minister of Social Affairs also conveyed that the assistance provided could be put to good use and motivated the recipients to keep trying and be confident.

 

Member of Commission VIII DPR RI, M. Husni expressed his hope that the social assistance provided could reduce the level of poverty in the community. The number of KPM for social assistance at RS-Rutilahu, North Sumatra Province as of November 10, 2021, was 691 KPM, for KPM who were ready to distribute as many as 499 KPM and 192 KPM were not ready for distribution.

 

Meanwhile, the social assistance data matching activity led by the Special Staff to the Minister of Social Affairs for Communication and Mass Media, Don Rozano Sigit, was carried out in discussions with the Regency/City Social Service, Distribution Bank Branch, and Regency/City Regional Coordinator took place at Bahagia Center in Medan, North Sumatra Province.

 

In the activity of matching the social assistance data, several obstacles were found in the distribution of basic food/BPNT program assistance in regencies/cities which included incomplete documents, undistributed KKS, death of KPM, multiple KKS, absence of KPM, and KPM changing domicile.

 

On this occasion, the Special Staff to the Minister of Social Affairs for Communication and Mass Media, Don Rozano Sigit, asked the Branch Channeling Banks and regency/city Regional Coordinators so that data problems were immediately followed up and could immediately distribute the acceleration of basic food assistance to KPMs who had not made transactions or KKS that had not been distributed yet.

 

"We have agreed to correct this data within one week and it is hoped that channeling banks and their counterparts can help each other in accelerating the distribution of social assistance to KPM," said Don.

 

For the city of Medan itself, the number of KPM consists of 68,644 KPM for KKS distributed as many as 66,793 KPM and KKS that are not distributed as many as 1,851 KPM.

Present at the event were Secretary of the Directorate General of PFM, Beni Sujanto, Secretary of the Directorate General of Social Rehabilitation, Idit Supriyatna, Director of Family Social Security, Heri Krissritanto, Head of the Center for Social Rehabilitation Center “Bahagia” Medan, Lyana Siregar, Staff at the Ministry of Social Affairs, administrator of the Secretariat of the Directorate General of PFM, Directorate of Poverty Handling Region I, and representatives of the Region/City Social Office of North Sumatra Province.