Ministry of Social Affairs provides compensation for basic food packages to victims of Al-Khoziny Islamic boarding school

Jakarta – The Minister of Social Affairs, Saifullah Yusuf (Gus Ipul) attended the tahlilan and also presented compensation to the students who were victims of the collapse of the Al-Khoziny Sidoarjo Islamic Boarding School (Ponpes). Gus Ipul explained that this activity was the government’s attempt to provide support to the families of the victims. “We sat together at the Bangkalan Regency Hall to send prayers together to the martyrs, the students who preceded us in the disaster a few weeks ago,” Gus Ipul said in a written statement on Sunday (19/10/2025). Gus Ipul said this at an event held at Pendopo Agung, Bangkalan Regency, East Java on Saturday (18/10). Scroll TO CONTINUE CONTENT He said there were three mandates from President Prabowo Subianto to the Ministry of Social Affairs, namely the provision of social protection, medical and social rehabilitation, and social empowerment for victims and heirs. Apart from providing compensation, the Ministry of Social Affairs also provides training, business capital and assistance according to the needs of each family. “So we want to provide complete support so that we can really help the victim’s family according to their needs. According to the president’s order, we will prepare all the needs according to the victim’s needs. The victim’s family in particular,” explains Gus Ipul. On this occasion, Gus Ipul presented symbolic compensation to the 38 heirs of the deceased. Each received compensation of IDR 15 million. The total death toll from the collapse of the Al-Khoziny Islamic Boarding School building has reached 63 people. A total of 22 of them received compensation. The Ministry of Social Affairs also handed over compensation to the families of 35 injured victims. Victims of serious injuries receive compensation of IDR 5 million, and victims of minor injuries IDR 2.5 million. “The rest will follow (with assistance). Later, the injured will also follow, both seriously and lightly,” he said. Apart from that, the Ministry of Social Affairs also provided basic food packages worth IDR 14,250,000 to the families of the victims who died. Meanwhile, families of the injured also received nutritional and attention assistance worth IDR 42,12,684. Meanwhile, the director of social protection for victims of social and non-natural disasters at the Ministry of Social Affairs, Adrianus Alla, said that his party had assessed 22 victim families to receive social empowerment assistance. The total value of the assistance is IDR 175,083,000. “Especially tonight, empowerment assistance will be symbolically given to the family of a deceased victim from Surabaya in the form of a soto selling business worth IDR 10,075,000. And the family of a seriously injured person from Sidoarjo in the form of developing a coconut selling business worth IDR 10 million,” he said. concluded For your information, those present at this joint prayer included the regent and deputy regent of Bangkalan, Lukman Hakim and Moch Fauzan Ja’far; Chairman of PCNU Bangkalan, KH Muhammad Makki Nasir; caretaker of Al-Khoziny Sidoarjo Islamic Boarding School; Director General of Social Rehabilitation (Rehsos) Ministry of Social Affairs, Supomo; as well as the Director of Social Protection for Victims of Social and Non-Natural Disasters at the Ministry of Social Affairs, Adrianus Alla. Also watch the Al Khoziny Alumni Network video responding to the issue of Islamic boarding school development using the APBN (prf/ega)