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JAKARTA, KOMPAS TV – The government through the Ministry of Social Affairs ensures that it will continue to provide social assistance or social assistance in the next year or 2021.
However, the government will change the social assistance distribution scheme. The plan is that the social assistance that will be provided earlier in the form of basic needs will later be converted into cash or known as Social Assistance in Cash (BST).
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Acting Minister (Plt) for Social Affairs Muhadjir Effendy said that the cash assistance program will be implemented in the areas of Jakarta, Bogor, Depok, Tangerang and Bekasi (Jabodetabek).
According to him, this BST program will run until the first semester of 2021 or for 6 months. The BST plan will be delivered from January to June 2021.
“The Jabodetabek Bansos scheme that we use is BST. This social assistance will continue to be provided at least until the first half,” Muhadjir Effendy said at the Ministry of Social Affairs office in Jakarta on Monday (12/14/2020).
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