Social Minister's Working Visit in Manado, Handing Over ATENSI and Motivating Children Affected by COVID-19
MANADO (1 October 2021) - Minister of Social
Affairs, Tri Rismaharini together with the Secretary General of the Ministry of
Social Affairs as well as Acting Director General of Social Rehabilitation, the
Director General of Social Security, and the Director General of Poverty
Handling visited Manado City to compare the data on PKH, BST, and Social
Assistance as well as the Submission of Aid for Attention, PKH Graduation,
Entrepreneurship and ATENSI for Orphans/Fatherless/Motherless.
The activity carried out
at the Social Rehabilitation Center "Tumou Tou" Manado, began with
data matching activities in an open hall together with all Heads of Service
from North Sulawesi, Bank Mandiri, Bank BRI, BPKP North Sulawesi, Attorney
General's Office, and PKH HR.
The data matching
activity contains the direction of the Minister of Social Affairs to provide
cash assistance because many Beneficiary Families (KPM) have their accounts
blocked so they have never made a transaction for more than three months.
The Minister of Social
Affairs directed that the Head of the Social Service and Bank partners play an
active role and participate directly in the distribution of social assistance
funds, PKH and BST so that there are no more reasons for distribution
disruption for the KPM.
The Minister of Social
Affairs instructed Bank Mandiri's partners to unblock and resolve aid
distribution problems for the past two weeks so that the assistance that had
been deposited could be distributed immediately.
The next agenda, the
Minister of Social Affairs handed over assistance in the form of basic needs,
accessibility tools, and entrepreneurship symbolically to the Beneficiaries. The
total ATENSI assistance provided by Social Rehabilitation Center under the
Ministry of Social Affairs amounted to Rp. 635,935,500.
This assistance was
distributed to Bolaang Mongondow Regency worth Rp.44,800,000, Minahasa Regency
Rp.110,565,500, South Minahasa Regency Rp.44,500,000, North Minahasa Regency
Rp.13.900.000, Kotamobagu City Rp.24,000,000, Bitung City IDR 14,000,000,
Tomohon City IDR 17,100,000, and Manado City IDR 381,070,000.