"For 2022, the program will continue," Head of the Jakarta Social Office Premi Lesari stated here on Monday.
According to Lesari, the social office is currently readying the newest regulation for the social assistance program that had been earlier implemented in 2021.
The office head noted that the requirements for beneficiaries are those up to the age of 22 years, having a Jakarta ID number (NIK), and residing in Jakarta and whose parents or guardians have a NIK and reside in Jakarta.
The social assistance of Rp300 thousand per month will be halted if the beneficiary dies, changes his or her residence from Jakarta, uses the social assistance for inappropriate purposes, and gets married.
Earlier, Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan, through his personal YouTube channel, uploaded a video titled "Social Assistance" on Saturday, February 12, 2022, in which he explained that in 2021, over nine thousand children had lost their parents due to COVID-19 infection.
Of the figure, some five thousand children were still considered well-to-do and were not included in the social assistance program. Meanwhile, the rest 4,345 were recorded as assistance beneficiaries.
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Meanwhile, according to the Jakarta Provincial Government's data, since the start of the pandemic until Sunday, February 13, 2022, as many as 14,032 residents of Jakarta had succumbed to COVID-19.
The first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in Indonesia in March 2020. According to data from the COVID-19 Handling Task Force, as of February 14, 2022, Indonesia had recorded a total of 4,844,279 COVID-19 cases, 4,323,101 recoveries, and 145,321 deaths.
The Ministry of Health detected the first case of the new COVID-19 variant, Omicron, in Indonesia on December 15, 2021. With the spread of the new variant, Indonesia has recorded a significant increase in COVID-19 cases.
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