JAKARTA (February 25, 2022) - Minister of Social Affairs Tri Rismaharini conveyed several directions at the Monitoring and Evaluation meeting of the Directorate General of Social Rehabilitation in January 2022. Social Minister Risma emphasized the concept of multi-functional services implemented by the Social Rehabilitation Technical Implementation Unit (UPT) at the Ministry of Social Affairs.

 

Based on the Minister of Social Affairs Regulation Number 7 of 2021 on Social Rehabilitation Assistance, the Social Rehabilitation Technical Implementation Unit (UPT) of the Ministry of Social Affairs carries out direct multifunctional services.

 

This means that all Social Rehabilitation Centers do not only deal with one social problem but all social problems such as children, the elderly, people with disabilities, victims of drug abuse, homeless people, beggars to victims of natural disasters.

 

"I want to convey why the concept of the Center is a multifunctional service. We imagine when a problem occurs in NTT, for example, the problem with ODGJ (persons with mental disabilities), but cannot serve ODGJ because the nearest Center does not handle it. Even though we have building facilities, service rooms are empty and there are human resources, Are we going to leave the ODGJ alone? It doesn't respond quickly because the Center is not multifunctional? Therefore, I ask the office to carry out a multi-functional service so that it can handle all social problems," said Social Minister Risma.

 

Social Minister Risma also emphasized that with the existence of multifunctional services, the Center can respond quickly to victims of natural disasters. Social Rehabilitation Centers that are spread almost all over Indonesia can function as logistics warehouses so that when a disaster occurs it doesn't take too long to send logistics.

 

This effort was made considering that previously disaster logistics warehouses only existed at several points in Indonesia. This multifunctional service facilitates cross-cluster services in the regions.

 

Social Minister Risma invited all her staff to cooperate with each other, "Let's work together, if we only come and then go home it will not be optimal. We open our minds so that it is easy to work. No human is perfect but still do our best", she concluded.

 

In this monitoring and evaluation meeting, several issues related to optimizing the distribution of the ATENSI program were discussed. The Acting Director General of Social Rehabilitation, Harry Hikmat, emphasized that Centers should optimize the delivery of aid to beneficiaries, both in terms of quality and quantity.

 

The data states that during 2021, the outputs of ATENSI which are summarized are 211,184 beneficiaries who received ATENSI, 93,665 families involved in ATENSI, 4,140 Groups/Communities/LKS that carried out ATENSI, and 7,927 Companions of ATENSI.

While the results of ATENSI (Outcome) recorded in 2021 were 172,306 beneficiaries were met with their basic needs, 22,218 beneficiaries had their income by entrepreneurship, 13,933 beneficiaries had better mobility with ATENSI assistive devices, and 60,702 families were able to care for the beneficiaries.

Then, the Center must also respond quickly to various existing social problems, even now the Ministry of Social Affairs is collaborating with kitabisa.com to raise funds for beneficiaries who need special facilities to solve their problems, for example, such as medical expenses for serious illness.

Harry also conveyed a message from the Minister of Social Affairs Risma so that the Centers began to move again to assemble assistive devices for people with disabilities. In 2021 as many as 6,581 assistive devices were produced by beneficiaries with disabilities consisting of 757 units of electric wheelchairs, 354 units of tricycle commercial motorcycles, 5,420 units of adaptive sticks, and 50 units of water sensors with visual impairments.

In 2022, each center is expected to have 2 workshops for assembling tools so that the production of accessibility aids for people with disabilities is more optimal.

Centers that have run the ATENSI Creation Center are also expected to continue to develop it by promoting and improving the quality and variety of products, not only the work of the beneficiaries of the Center but also the work of cross-agency centers and beneficiaries of other Ministry of Social Affairs programs such as PKH, Prokus, and others.

Data on product sales turnover recapitulation in SKA as of December 31, 2021, shows a total turnover of Rp. 2,822,565,501 with a profit of Rp. 882,726,773.

Harry also directed the detail centers and continued to check the realization of each budget, evaluate various obstacles in the realization and find solutions.

The Monitoring and Evaluation Meeting of the Directorate General of Social Rehabilitation aims to ensure that the ATENSI Program can run well in all Social Rehabilitation Centers belonging to the Ministry of Social Affairs and maximize performance and the realization of the existing budget.

This meeting was held virtually and was attended by the Secretary of the Directorate General of Social Rehabilitation Idit Supriadi Priatna and his staff, the Directors of Social Rehabilitation, and the Heads of Social Rehabilitation Centers within the Ministry of Social Affairs.