The Regent of IPUK attended the coordination meeting of the Pilot project enhancement of the Bansos Digitization

Jakarta – Banyuwangi is determined to be a pilot project that enhances the digitalization of social assistance (Bansos) nationally. For the finalization of the program, Banyuwangi Regent Ipuk Fiestiandani was invited to attend a joint coordination meeting of 20 ministries and institutions at the Office of the National Economic Council (den), Jakarta. The coordination meeting was led by the Chairman of the National Economic Council (Den) Luhut Binsar Panjaitan, attended by four ministers and four deputy ministers, namely social minister Saifullah Yusuf, Menpan RB Rini Widyantini, Minister of Communications and Information Meutcha Hafid, and Minister Bappenas Rachmat Pambudy. The Deputy Minister of Neg Juri Ardiantoro, Wamendagri Bima Arya, Wamen Bumn Kartiko Wirjoatmodjo, Legal Deputy Minister Edward Omar, head of BPS Amalia Adinegar Widyasanti and a number of related institutions. The program will be launched in September 2025, and Banyuwangi, which will become a pilot project. Browse to continue the content “Later in September the third week we started the pilot project in Banyuwangi. It is planned that President Prabowo Subianto will come alone,” Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan said in a statement on Monday. Luhut himself is the chairman of the Government Digital Transformation Acceleration Committee. The Government Digital Transformation Acceleration Committee is a follow -up to Presidential Regulation No. 83 of 2025. The digital system is designed to increase the accuracy of distribution by reducing the inclusion and exclusion error, strengthen transparency and accountability and enable the public to independently verify digital identity. The rear side process will be performed automatically by verifying cross-institutional data, from BPJS Health, BPJS Employment, BI-Himbara, ATR/BPN, to Samsat. According to Luhut, the digitalization of social assistance will contribute to saving the budget to more than RP 500 trillion, because the system will make the recipients of social assistance on the target. “And remember, social assistance can have an impact of 0.3 percent to 0.4 percent of economic growth,” he said. Luhut said the application of socialization of social assistance will be expanded to other regions after being applied in Banyuwangi. The committee will see developments until December while visiting other districts/cities, so they can prepare to implement the digital social assistance system. “If Banyuwangi is good until October, the president can start nationally later in January 2026,” he said. Meanwhile, Ipuk expressed its gratitude for the confidence given by the central government. Banyuwangi is strongly committed to realizing digital government. “We have been pursuing digital transformation since 2012. In reality, to the town/ Kelurahan level by installing fiber optic as the most important infrastructure. It’s a pride as well as a challenge for Banyuwangi. I think with digitization will be more targeted,” Ipuk said. To support the program, even Banyuwangi Banyuwangi prepared one ID innovation. This system has access to different services based on the Population Identification Number (NIC) through the Smart Village application. “It is integrated and ready to be put together in a single national economic census data,” he concluded. (AKD/AKD)