SEMARANG CITY (3 September 2021) - The Director General of Poverty Handling (PFM), Asep Sasa Purnama held a meeting with the Central Java Provincial Social Service, Semarang City Social Service, and Himbara. This is a follow-up to the number of KPM that have not been distributed in the province of Central Java when conducting data matching with the Minister of Social Affairs on Friday afternoon.

 

The high number that has not been distributed in the basic food assistance program has made the Minister of Social Affairs, Tri Rismaharini, appealed to distributors to immediately distribute the assistance. Therefore, this meeting was held to look for a strategy to quickly distribute it, "according to the direction of the Minister of Social Affairs so that it can be distributed quickly, this meeting is to find a strategy on how it can be distributed quickly," said the Director General of PFM.

 

The Director General of PFM hopes that Himbara will continue to coordinate with the social service regarding the distribution of social assistance, so that existing problems do not recur. For good synergy to occur in the regions, he also expects Regional Coordinator (Korda) to continue to verify data regularly so that the data remains updated.

 

"We ask that Korda checks directly to the location to update the data, after all, there must be KPM who graduated, KPM who died, or changed their domicile," said the Director General of PFM.

 

The Director General of PFM also asked Korda to socialize the PFM program to the underprivileged. He considers that there are quite a lot of lower-class people who still do not know about the existence of social assistance from the government, especially from the Directorate General of PFM.

 

"It is appealed to the Korda to always provide dissemination to the poor about this assistance, because they are not aware of this program", said the Director General of PFM.

 

Attending this meeting were the Secretary of the Directorate General of PFM, Benny Sujanto, Director of Region II, I Wayan Wirawan, representatives of the Central and Branches of Himbara Bank BNI, BTN, and BRI, Head of the Social Service of Central Java Province, Head of Semarang City Service, Korda Salatiga, Korda Kendal, Korda district and city of Semarang.