West Java Regional House of Representatives Ensures Aid to Targeted Communities
Detiktoday.com – West Java Provincial People’s Representative Council held a leadership consultation meeting on policies on handling health and social safety due to COVID-19 with the Government of West Java Province.
Deputy Chairperson of the West Java Provincial People’s Representative Council, Ineu Purwadewi Sundari said, the discussion with the West Java Provincial Government previously was only a big concept about the budgeting.
Therefore at the meeting of the Chairperson and Chair of the AKD and the Chairpersons of each faction discussed technically how the budget planning in implementing Presidential Instruction No. 4 of 2020 concerning budget refocusing. Because, as many as 1.6 million West Java residents who were affected by Covid 19 need attention.
“The commitment of the local people’s representative councils to get involved with the regional government to ensure that the community receives assistance on target. As agreed last week cash assistance amounted to one hundred fifty thousand rupiah non-cash food aid amounting to three hundred fifty thousand rupiah. In addition to cash assistance, there is input from the task force team to pay attention to the needs of the community because of social factors distancing how technically the aid will be distributed, “she said.
The Board hopes, he continued, the affected communities can feel the assistance directly. Then how to awaken the community after the Covid pandemic19 with a budget of thirteen trillion rupiah from the local government. “For example, labor-intensive, then activities that generate business affected by Covid19,” she explained.
Meanwhile, Ineu continued, the delayed agenda includes Plenary Meeting which was supposed to be held on March 30 yesterday. However, the board leaders and members agreed on a plan to hold the Plenary Meeting on 20 April. Of course, with strict regulations. “The Ministry of Home Affairs policy provides tolerance for plenary implementation over the next month,” she said.
The Board hopes that in the future after the pandemic is declared complete, activities will be able to resume its responsibilities. Monitoring is very important to be done which must be anticipated to cause new problems. “We will assign each commission to conduct monitoring, of course also in conditions that have been declared safe,” said the PDI-P politician.
On this occasion, the Provincial People’s Representative Council together with relevant stakeholders conducted a technical discussion on the implementation of Presidential Instruction (Inpres) No. 4 of 2020 concerning Refocussing Activities, Budget Reallocation and Procurement of Goods and Services in the framework of Accelerating Handling of Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19).
