Govt to continue improving people`s welfare programs
Antara News, Monday, April 19, 2010 18:31 WIB
Tampak Siring, Bali (ANTARA News) - The government will continue to improve its social and people`s welfare programs to eliminate prosperity gaps in society as called for in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said.
Speaking at a national working meeting of key central and provincial government officials at Tampak Siring Palace here on Monday, the president said : "Our purpose this time is to secure, improve, and make perfect our people`s welfare and social program," the president said at the meeting attended by cabinet ministers, provincial governors, regional legislative council (DPRD) chairmen, state enterprise (BUMN) chiefs, and state institution leaders.
At one of the sessions of the meeting, Coordinating Minister for People`s Welfare Agung Laksono explained the people`s welfare and social programs currently being carried out by the government.
"The poverty rate at present is 14.1 percent, the unemployment rate 7.9 percent. The number of poor people in Java is 57.8 percent and in Papua 4.2 percent," Agung Laksono said.
Therefore, he said, in the medium-term development plan 2010-2014, national development programs should be carried out justly and evenly across the country.
"Various efforts should be made to abolish social imbalances in various areas by expanding job opportunities in order to reduce the unemployment rate," Agung Laksono said.
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono opened the meeting on Monday morning in the company of Vice President Boediono.
The meeting would last until Wednesday, April 21, 2010, and was expected to produce a "Tampak Siring strategy" which would be implemented through a Presidential Instruction.
The meeting would focus on four things, namely Indonesia`s economic development over the next five years, an evaluation of pro-people programs, law enforcement and justice for the people, and efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015.
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