"Our ministry encourages all relevant stakeholders to increase collaboration, coordination, and synergy in order to accelerate the handling of extreme poverty," he informed in Jakarta on Monday.
Presidential Instruction Number 4 of 2022 concerning the acceleration of the elimination of extreme poverty requires relevant ministries/agencies as well as local governments to make measurable efforts to expedite the eradication of extreme poverty, he said.
The minister also reminded all stakeholders to ensure that the programs implemented to achieve this target are integrated and right on target. In addition, community involvement to support the program is also required.
He then outlined three key activities that would be carried out to support efforts to accelerate the handling of extreme poverty.
"The government continues to focus on three key activities for handling extreme poverty," he said.
First, the government is providing social assistance and subsidies to reduce the expenditure burden on the extremely poor, he informed.
Second, the government will start community empowerment to increase the income of the extremely poor, and third, it will develop basic service infrastructure to reduce the number of poor areas, he added.
These three key activities are expected to support the government's commitment to eliminating extreme poverty by 2024, he said.
The minister also reminded that the program to accelerate the handling of extreme poverty must focus on priority locations.
According to him, the government is targeting to bring down the number of extremely poor from four percent or 10.86 million in 2021 to zero percent by 2024.
He also said that handling stunting and extreme poverty will be a priority in 2023.
"Our effort to handle stunting and extreme poverty is included in a priority program, according to President Joko Widodo's direction," he disclosed.
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Editor: Rahmad Nasution
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