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President: Make Sure Social Protection Net Scheme Works Effective

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President Joko Widodo (center) delivers a speech at an event providing working capital assistance to small traders affected by COVID-19 in the central courtyard of the State Palace, Jakarta, Tuesday President Joko Widodo (center) delivers a speech at an event providing working capital assistance to small traders affected by COVID-19 in the central courtyard of the State Palace, Jakarta, Tuesday ANTARA FOTO/Akbar Nugroho Gumay

President Joko Widodo asked his staff to ensure that programs in the social protection net scheme run effectively and on target.

"In the short term, all program schemes related to social protection nets such as PKH, cash assistance, village cash assistance, need to run effectively," he said on a limited meeting via video conference on accelerating village economic improvement, in Jakarta, on Thursday.

The President said that the social protection net scheme must reach people in need, especially rural communities affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

"We need to observe the implementation of cash (program) for the village so it can reduce the burden on rural communities who have lost their jobs or come from poor families in the village," he said.

The President also said that the COVID-19 pandemic should be used as a momentum to improve and reform the grand strategy of transforming the village economy. (Antaranews)

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