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    "data": {
        "id": 2047159,
        "msgid": "den-digital-social-protection-trial-shows-welfare-aid-is-better-targeted-1792511515",
        "date": "2026-10-20 22:08:11",
        "title": "DEN: Digital Social Protection Trial Shows Welfare Aid Is Better Targeted",
        "author": "",
        "source": "ANTARA_ID",
        "tags": "",
        "topic": "Social Policy",
        "summary": "A nationwide trial of digitalising social protection has reduced errors in beneficiary data, potentially helping ensure welfare assistance reaches eligible households. The system has registered 11.5 million households across 514 districts and cities, while the government is also considering shifting some subsidies from product-based support to direct cash transfers.",
        "content": "<p>Jakarta (ANTARA) \u2013 National Economic Council (DEN) member Mochammad\nFirman Hidayat said a trial of digitalising social protection\n(Perlinsos) had reduced errors in social assistance beneficiary data,\npotentially enabling aid to be better targeted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDigitalising Perlinsos can make the social assistance process more\ntransparent and better targeted,\u201d Firman told reporters at the\nPresidential Palace complex in Jakarta on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Firman said the Perlinsos digitalisation trial had been carried out\nin all 514 districts and cities in Indonesia, with 11.5 million\nhouseholds registered in the system.<\/p>\n<p>Exclusion errors occur when people who are eligible for assistance\nare not recorded as beneficiaries. Inclusion errors, by contrast, occur\nwhen people who are not eligible are included in the beneficiary\ndata.<\/p>\n<p>Firman said that, with support from 775,000 Perlinsos agents, around\n600,000 applicants were being registered in the system each day.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, DEN Chair Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan said the government also\nplanned to change the subsidy distribution mechanism, moving from\nproduct-based subsidies to direct cash transfers.<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/den-digital-social-protection-trial-shows-welfare-aid-is-better-targeted-1792511515",
        "image": ""
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    "sponsor": "Okusi Associates",
    "sponsor_url": "https:\/\/okusiassociates.com"
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