Social Affairs Minister urges village heads who produce social media content to help ensure the DTSEN data update succeeds
Bekasi Regency — Social Affairs Minister Saifullah Yusuf urged village heads, including those who actively create content on social media, to contribute to making the updating of the National Integrated Social and Economic Data (DTSEN) successful as the basis for targeted social assistance delivery.
In a press conference after DTSEN socialisation in Bekasi Regency, West Java, on Wednesday, he stressed that village heads hold a strategic position as the first data-update entry points via RT, RW, up to the village deliberations before input into the system.
“Therefore, village heads should not just create content about social assistance. For example (in their content) this person is not eligible to receive assistance or vice versa—don’t do that, because the data come from you. You must ensure that the data in your area are correct and up-to-date, because from there all social assistance policies begin,” he said in front of hundreds of village heads and village data operators from Bekasi Regency who attended the socialisation.
The Ministry of Social Affairs gives a strategic role to village heads through the authority of their apparatus to input the latest socio-economic conditions of the community into the Next Generation Social Welfare Information System (SIK-NG).
Minister Saifullah emphasised that the updating of DTSEN is in line with Presidential Instruction No. 4/2025 and Presidential Instruction No. 8/2025 on Poverty Eradication.
Before DTSEN consolidation takes effect, each ministry and region has its own data base, potentially leading to differences in targeting; therefore, the government opens space for public participation up to the village level to propose and object to improve data accuracy.
“Active participation of all stakeholders from the regional to the central level is required so that social assistance truly reaches those in need and no longer triggers polemics in the public arena,” he said.