Coordinating Human Development and Culture Minister Muhadjir Effendy said the government would improve data collection and update the Integrated Data for Social Welfare (DTKS) a database of poor and vulnerable families next year amid a rising poverty rate due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The DTKS, managed by the Social Affairs Ministry, which is under Muhadjir s jurisdiction, collects socioeconomic and demographic information on the population s bottom 40 percent in terms of welfare. It was built upon a 2015 Statistics Indonesia (BPS) survey and has been used as the first reference for distributing social aid, although outdated data has been widely blamed for mistargeted aid disbursement.