Kotabaru, S Kalimantan (ANTARA) - As many as 7.539 heads of families in Kotabaru District, South Kalimantan, have received non-cash food assistance (BPNT). The distribution of the assistance was marked by Kotabaru Regent H Sayed Jafar handed over Family Welfare Cards (KKS) to residents of villages in Pulau Laut Utara Sub-district.
"Hopefully the assistance gives benefit to residents who receive it," the regent said here on Tuesday.
Each of beneficiary family (KPM) gets an assistance worth Rp110 thousand in the BPNT program.
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He hoped the distribution of BPNT to be right on target to truely poor families and it very depended on the honesty of officers who did data collection in the field.
"I do not want the distribution of assistance to not according to its desination," he asserted.
On the other side, the regent asked village apparatus together with neighborhood unit (RT) continue to inventory the poor citizens but have not been touched by any social program from the government.
"Please work with RT until the data could be dilivered to Social Agency, as it is possible that there are many people who have not been listed," he said.
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Acting Head of Kotabaru Social Agency Nurviza said BPNT is a transformation of rice for welfare of the Bansos (Social Assistance Program).
"The number of recipient remain, but some are out and some other in," he said.
"But additional of quota will depend on the policy of Social Ministry," he added.
