JAKARTA (January 7, 2025) – Secretary General of the Ministry of Social Affairs Robben Rico and Director General of Social Empowerment Mira Riyati Kurniasih attended the Coordination Meeting to implement the Community Empowerment Program for the 2025 Fiscal Year. The coordination meeting held at the office of the Coordinating Ministry for Community Empowerment on Tuesday (January 7, 2025) was attended by Ministries/Institutions under the auspices of the Coordinating Ministry for Community Empowerment.

On that occasion, Robben Rico invited all Ministries/Institutions under the auspices of the Coordinating Ministry for Community Empowerment to strengthen synergy and collaboration in order to improve community empowerment from upstream to downstream. He invited all Ministries/Institutions present to create a pilot project for cooperation that can be felt by the community.

"We hope that we can work together to establish synergy so that each Ministry/Institution can create a joint collaborative project," said Robben.

Ministry of Social Affairs, Ministry of Villages and Development of Disadvantaged Regions, Ministry of Cooperatives, Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), and Ministry of Creative Economy which are under the auspices of the Coordinating Ministry for Community Empowerment have many overlapping programs. By strengthening collaboration, Roben hopes that extreme poverty can be resolved.

Roben added that MoSA focuses on lifelong protection as its main program. To realize this optimally, the Ministry of Social Affairs not only provides various social assistance and rehabilitation programs but also empowerment programs. In empowerment, MoSA invites other Ministries/Institutions to collaborate to increase the number of people who escape from poverty.

 "The culmination will be in empowerment, the goal is graduation from social assistance. After that graduation, we invite other Ministries/Institutions to collaborate," added Robben.

Director General of Social Empowerment Mira Riyati Kurniasih explained that collaboration between Ministries/Institutions is also needed to ensure that the wheels of the community's economy that have started to turn do not stop and their economy and welfare do not decline again.

"This means that earlier when we talked about collaboration, we collaborated on this data (graduation data) so that KPM does not go down a class again," he said.

Mira added that through this collaboration, the beneficiaries who have graduated can become Social Welfare Potential and Sources who contribute to the implementation of social welfare.