Rp. 2.4 Million BLT UMKM spreads, this is the number of target recipients

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com – The government through the Ministry of Cooperatives and SMEs (Kemenkop UMKM) has extended the Presidential Productive Assistance (Banpres) or Direct Cash Assistance (BLT) program for IDR 2.4 million.

The Finance deputy of the Ministry of Cooperatives and SMEs, Hanung Harimba Rachman, said that initially this program ended in September, but because the BLT program received an additional limit of 3 million MSMEs players, this assistance program was extended until December 2020.

“Yes, it will run until December with an additional goal of 3 million MSMEs. So I ask the heads of regional and regency services to immediately propose their UMKM,” he said when contacted by Kompas.com, on Friday (10 / 02/2020).

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According to Hanung, the additional ceiling given by the president could make BLT distribution uniform. Also, he said, there are several areas where the distribution is still small, such as Maluku, Kalimantan to NTT.

“We see that the areas whose absorption is still small are areas outside of Java. So with this additional ceiling, we want to boost absorption there,” he said.

Furthermore, Hanung also asked the local government to immediately correct the rejected MSMEs data, due to invalid data that was entered at the time it was collected.

If the data is declared invalid, MSMEs do not receive assistance.

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As for the reason, the data was declared invalid, because there were several points that were left blank when completing data such as Residential Address, Occupation and incorrectly entering the Identity Number (NIK).

Hanung also said that at least 8 million pieces of data were rejected and had to be rejected because the data was invalid, although of that number there was 30 percent of the data that could be corrected, as long as the regional or district / city heads they could fix it right away. quickly.

“That is why I said and asked the regional office to correct the data immediately and quickly. So that business people can get help quickly,” he said.

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