August's PKD Social Assistance Distribution Begins
Reported by Aldi Geri Lumban Tobing | Translated by Rizky Mawardi
Jakarta Social Agency is distributing the Basic Needs Social Assistance (PKD) to beneficiaries this month.
improving beneficiaries life quality
The PKD Social Assistance has been distributed in stages starting Monday, August 25, 2025.
The total number of beneficiaries reached 165,375, consisting of 148,109 existing beneficiaries; 121,491 from the KLJ program, 11,605 from the KAJ program, and 15,013 from the KPDJ program. Meanwhile, there are 17,226 new beneficiaries; 2,661 from the LJ program, 11,025 from the KAJ program, and 3,540 from the KPDJ program.
City Disburses PKD Assistance for 149 Thousand PeopleIn addition, 40 existing recipients were suspended but passed the data matching and updating process, with details of 36 KLJ recipients, 2 KAJ recipients, and 2 KPDJ recipients.
Jakarta Social Agency Head, Iqbal Akbarudin, said the distribution of PKD social assistance is part of the Jakarta Provincial Government's commitment to ensuring the survival of vulnerable communities in reducing the burden on society, especially for the elderly, young children, and people with disabilities.
"Hopefully this assistance can ease daily needs while improving beneficiaries life quality," he said, Tuesday (8/26).
He explained that for new beneficiaries in 2025, the process of opening accounts and distributing ATM cards to 38,958 people is currently underway until August 30, 2025.
Iqbal stated that recipients of KLJ, KAJ, and KPDJ social assistance must be registered in the Integrated Social Welfare List (DTKS). However, the Indonesian Ministry of Social Affairs has currently closed the DTKS registration feature, as the DTKS has been transformed into the National Integrated Socioeconomic Data (DTSEN), thus eliminating DTKS registration.
According to him, all residents are registered in the DTSEN according to their welfare level. The determination of social assistance recipients will be based on welfare status rankings/deciles.
If it is found that the decile in the DTSEN does not match the factual conditions or is not yet in the DTSEN or there is no decile in the DTSEN, the data will be updated while awaiting further policies from the Indonesian Ministry of Social Affairs and the Jakarta Provincial Government.
"The Jakarta Social Agency will continue to strengthen data validation to ensure targeted and transparent assistance distribution," he stated.
