Ministry of Social Affairs Maintains PPKS Resilience to Face the COVID-19 Pandemic
Writer :
Humas Ditjen Rehabilitasi Sosial
Translator :
Karlina Irsalyana
JAKARTA
(August 5, 2021) - Director General
of Social Rehabilitation of the Ministry of Social Affairs, Harry Hikmat,
represented by the Secretary of the Directorate General of Social
Rehabilitation, Idit Supriadi Priatna, attended the Coordination Meeting on the resilience of Poor Families in Facing the COVID-19 Pandemic which was held by
the Coordinating Ministry for Human Development and Culture virtually.
As we all know, the pandemic, which has
entered its second year, has had a very significant impact on various sectors
of life. The national condition is a slowdown in economic growth, followed by a
decline in productivity, an increase in unemployment, and an increase in the
number of poor people.
Deputy for the Coordination of Quality
Improvement for Children, Women, and Youth at the Coordinating Ministry for
Human Development and Culture, Femmy Eka Kartika Putri conveyed 7 (Seven) development
agendas for 2020 - 2024, one of which is Improving Quality and Competitive
Human Resources. "In any condition, we have the task of continuing to
build Indonesian human resources, because it is one of our priorities and our
family is one of the focuses in increasing quality and competitive human
resources", said Femmy.
At this virtual meeting, the Secretary of the
Directorate General of Social Rehabilitation, Idit Supriadi Priatna conveyed
the activities that had been carried out by the Ministry of Social Affairs to
maintain the resilience of the Social Welfare Service Recipients (PPKS)
requirements, namely, the provision of ATENSI assistance and ATENSI Services
for Beneficiaries (PM) followed by tightening the implementation of health
programs.
In addition, during PPKM, the Center
establishes public kitchens and continues to produce ready-to-eat food and
boiled eggs. Vaccination is sought in coordination with the Health Office,
Puskesmas (Public Health Center) and various other parties for PPKS such as
Persons with Disabilities, Elderly, Children and others, case response to PPKS
exposed and affected by COVID-19, Health service providers, and nutritional
supplements campaigns through social media related to the implementation of
health protocols for the elderly.
The impact of these
activities/programs is the fulfillment of the basic needs of PPKS, fulfillment
of nutrition for PPKS, restoring economic resilience for PPKS and their
families, access to basic health services for PPKS facilitated by the Center
and LKS, families, and PPKS getting education related to the implementation of
health protocols in the midst of COVID-19 pandemic.
The targets and the amount
of the Ministry of Social Affairs assistance budget to maintain the resilience
of PPKS are the Social Rehabilitation Program, Social Welfare Service
assistance for 20,000 Drug Victims with a budget of around Rp. 119 billion,
Social Welfare Services for 9,000 Persons with Social Deviance Issues and Human
Trafficking Victims with a budget of around Rp. 104 billion, Social Welfare
Services for 48,000 Persons with Disabilities with a budget of around Rp. 501
billion, Social Welfare Services for 30,000 Children with a budget of around
Rp. 183 billion, Social Welfare Services for 35,000 Elderly with a budget of
around Rp. 132 Billion.
The Per-Stage Assistance
Scheme for the Family Hope Program (PKH) social assistance based on category
along with index/year and index/3 months including pregnant women index/year
Rp3 million and index/3 months Rp750 thousand, children aged 0-6 years
index/year IDR 3 million and index/3 months IDR 750 thousand, elementary school
children index/year IDR 900 thousand and index / 3 months IDR 225 thousand,
junior school children IDR 1.5 million and index / 3 months IDR 375 thousand, senior
high school students index/year IDR 2 million and index/3 months Rp. 500
thousand, severe disabilities Rp. 2.4 million and index/3 months Rp. 600
thousand, elderly 70 years and over, index/year is Rp. 2.4 million and index/3
months is Rp. 600 thousand.
Furthermore, the Ministry
of Social Affairs also provides Cash Social Assistance (BST) in 2021. The BST
program targets 10 million Beneficiary Families (KPM), in 34 provinces including
Jabodetabek, which previously received the Presidential Basic Food Assistance.
Cash assistance is given to the community in the context of preventing COVID-19,
with an index of assistance of Rp. 300,000 distributed for 6 months, the
distribution of this cash assistance through PT POS every
month.
The Director General of
Higher Education, Research and Technology, Nizam said that Dikti Office was
always encouraged and mobilized to be able to help overcome various poverty
problems through thematic KKN programs.
Nizam also mentioned about
the Merdeka Campus program which will collaborate with the Ministry of Social
Affairs that the Merdeka Campus can be a very flexible space for students to
carry out various forms of activities in the field, especially in developing
villages to overcome various poverty problems.
Nizam said that the
Minister of Social Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia, Tri Rismaharini was
very interested in the Merdeka Campus program, "We are also strengthening
programs at the Ministry of Social Affairs. So, we are ready to synergize
through the Merdeka Campus program, both in mobilizing students to accelerate
various government programs", said Nizam.
At the end of this virtual meeting, Femmy Eka Kartika Putri thanked the speakers who had provided very
valuable information to be synergized and collaborated in the future.
This Coordination Meeting
was attended by Echelon I Officials in the Ministry of Social Affairs, Ministry
of Home Affairs, Ministry of Manpower, Bappenas, BKKBN, and LIPI.
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