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        "id": 2032831,
        "msgid": "a-new-era-for-social-assistance-1791769899",
        "date": "2026-10-12 07:36:49",
        "title": "A New Era for Social Assistance",
        "author": "",
        "source": "ANTARA_ID",
        "tags": "",
        "topic": "Social Policy",
        "summary": "The article describes the Prabowo-Gibran administration\u2019s new Digital Social Protection system, intended to make social assistance registration and beneficiary selection more transparent and accurately targeted. It also highlights a volunteer-led scheme to help people without smartphones or internet access apply, while presenting the changes as a break from opaque, bureaucratic practices.",
        "content": "<p>Jakarta (ANTARA) \u2013 We often hear stories from villages or low-cost\nhousing complexes about two equally poor families, one of whom receives\nsocial assistance while the other never gets any. This usually happens\nbecause residents\u2019 records are incomplete, or because people who should\nqualify have not been registered at the sub-district office.<\/p>\n<p>The administration of President Prabowo Subianto and Vice-President\nGibran Rakabuming Raka is now overhauling the way social assistance is\ndistributed, aiming to make it fairer and better targeted through a new\nsystem called Digital Social Protection (Perlinsos Digital).<\/p>\n<p>Under this system, beneficiary data will no longer be open to\nmanipulation at the discretion of individuals or groups who have won\nelections. It will all be checked by a fair and transparent computer\nsystem. Anyone may register, and neighbours can help monitor the process\nto ensure assistance reaches those who need it.<\/p>\n<p>For residents without smartphones, those unfamiliar with the internet\nand older people, the government has prepared a mutual-aid initiative\ncalled the Neighbour Care Movement (Gerakan Peduli Tetangga). Hundreds\nof thousands of volunteers \u2013 including neighbours, neighbourhood and\ncommunity association officials, village supervisory non-commissioned\nofficers (Babinsa) and village facilitators \u2013 are ready to visit homes\nand help residents register, free of charge.<\/p>\n<p>This major change effectively reverses longstanding practices in\nsocial-assistance bureaucracy, which for decades have been slow and\nopaque. In the past, the fate of a poor resident was determined through\na chain of desks, from a neighbourhood letter and sub-district records\nto tiered verification, which was often held up by personal connections\nor local politics. When data was kept tightly under wraps, suspicion\nflourished in the community.<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/a-new-era-for-social-assistance-1791769899",
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    "sponsor": "Okusi Associates",
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