Suara.com – PDI Perjuangan (PDIP) politician, Aria Bima, talks about love for President Joko Widodo or Jokowi. However, he admitted that he was sad to see Jokowi now acting as if he was assigned to do something that a Head of State should not have to do.
One of them is that the president directly distributes social assistance (Bansos) for the benefit of certain candidate pairs in the 2024 presidential election.
“We also love Jokowi, the party that Mas Abdee carried in 2014, 2019, but we love Mr. Jokowi in the right way. In a way that places honor on Mr. Jokowi,” said Aria at the Ganjar-Mahfud Media Center, Menteng, Newsdelivers.com. Center, Wednesday (31/1/2024).
According to him, currently Jokowi is being loved in the wrong way, giving the impression that he is being asked to take care of trivial things, for example, such as going directly to distribute social assistance in the interests of winning certain candidate pairs.
“Don't be busy checking on basic food matters, fertilizer matters, that's (the minister's) business,” he said.
He then compared his duties at TPN Ganjar-Mahfud, which was busy taking care of meetings. While he saw that Jokowi was busy taking care of social assistance, he admitted that he was not willing.
“I'm here taking care of the meeting with Mr. Abdee and Mr. Arsjad. If the president I elected in 2014-2019 was tasked with helping with basic food supplies, I'm not willing. I'm not willing to be honest,” he said.
“This is what I think tomorrow's expression will be, what if we look after the Republic of Indonesia by continuing, the people who can visit are Ganjar Pranowo, the people who can be close to the people are Ganjar Pranowo and Mr. Mahfud MD,” he continued.
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Previously, President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) recently seemed to be enjoying distributing social assistance or social assistance to a number of communities he visited. The social assistance is in the form of basic necessities or cash.
But what is interesting is that Jokowi distributed the social assistance without involving the Minister of Social Affairs Tri Rismaharini, who is the person responsible for providing social assistance.
Minister of Finance Sri Mulyani also explained that the social assistance program is a mandate in the APBN Law which was discussed and approved jointly by the government and the DPR. So if the government runs the social assistance program it is the same as using APBN money.
Sri Mulyani also gave the example that social assistance related to the Family Hope Program (PKH), Basic Food Cards or Direct Cash Assistance (BLT) is the responsibility of the Ministry of Social Affairs, so the ministry should be the person responsible and executor.
“The executor of PKH and Basic Food Cards is the Ministry of Social Affairs, so in this case the Ministry of Social Affairs will explain PKH and Basic Food Cards, including whether there are any additions or modifications (to the social assistance program). Later, the Minister of Social Affairs will explain,” said Sri Mulyani at the System Stability Committee press conference. Finances viewed online via the Ministry of Finance's YouTube channel, Tuesday (30/1/2024).
Meanwhile, for food or rice assistance, the person responsible is Bapanas or the National Food Agency, but data on recipients intended for the program must refer to agreed data. In this sense, data can be sourced from Integrated Social Welfare Data (DTKS) or Regsosek from the Central Statistics Agency (BPS).
“The executor of PKH and Basic Food Cards is the Ministry of Social Affairs, but if food aid is in the form of rice, the executor is Bapanas but the data must be in accordance with what was agreed,” he said.