JAKARTA (January 30, 2023) – Amid increasingly complex social dynamics, the Ministry of Social Affairs continues to improve transparent and accountable budget management. The Ministry ensures that social assistance budget management runs effectively and efficiently.

For the 2023 Fiscal Year, the Ministry of Social Affairs' budget will reach IDR78 trillion. Minister of Social Affairs Tri Rismaharini stated that most of the budget was allocated for social assistance spending which was handed over directly to the beneficiaries.

"From the IDR78 trillion budget, IDR74 trillion is for the beneficiaries of social protection programs. Then IDR4 trillion is for disasters, children, the elderly, people with disabilities, people affected by drugs, and other neglected people," she said in Sumenep, on Sunday (29/1).

The largest budget is allocated for the Basic Food Program (Non-Cash Food Assistance/BPNT) with a value of IDR45.1 trillion which reaches 18.8 million Beneficiary Families (KPM). Next is the Family Hope Program (PKH) with a budget of IDR28.7 trillion for 10 million KPM.

Apart from the two programs above, the Ministry of Social Affairs is now developing Nusantara Economic Heroes (PENA) program for social assistance recipients of productive age. PENA facilitates business capital for KPM to be financially and socially independent. In 2023, it is planned that as many as 10,000 KPM will be empowered by this program.

For social rehabilitation, the Minister of Social Affairs targets that as many as 133,600 Social Welfare Service for Persons in Needs (PPKS) can benefit from the Social Rehabilitation Assistance (ATENSI) program. ATENSI has a comprehensive residential, community, and family-based approach to handling social problems. ATENSI is given to people with disabilities, the elderly, children who need special protection (AMPK), and disasters and emergencies-affected people.

"Specifically for disabilities, the Ministry of Social Affairs has budgeted 55,000 units of costs for making assistive equipment in 31 work units and special literacy units for disabilities," she said.

Responding to the issue of a social protection budget worth IDR500 trillion, the Minister of Social Affairs said that the government used the budget nationally to help ease the burden on society. “Among them are fuel subsidies (fuel oil), electricity subsidies, and gas subsidies. Maybe people didn't receive the money. "For example, he gets 450 Watt electricity, and the melon LPG gas is also subsidized," she said.

The Minister of Social Affairs emphasized that recently, her party has used the budget efficiently. The Ministry of Social Affairs uses existing resources to reduce mismanagement costs required in distributing aid. “We are very, very efficient at handling that. We carry out data training for regional officers at our centers," she explained.

In 2022, the Ministry of Social Affairs will realize a budget of IDR95.4 trillion, the largest of which is allocated for social empowerment and protection programs. Apart from PKH and the Basic Food Program, the Ministry of Social Affairs has renovated 10,562 uninhabitable houses successfully through the Integrated Prosperous Houses program.

A total of 776,256 disaster-affected people received emergency response logistics assistance, more than 20 million KPM received Cooking Oil assistance and BBM cash assistance, about 3,500 families received for the Empowerment of Remote Indigenous Communities, and 5,209 KPM received PENA.

For the social rehabilitation program, as many as 192,144 people received ATENSI assistance in 2022, consisting of ATENSI for people with disabilities, children, the elderly, COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 orphans, food for the elderly, and disabilities who live alone. The Ministry of Social Affairs also succeeded in distributing 13,763 units of assistive devices for people with disabilities.

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