Jakarta Vice Governor, Djarot Saiful Hidayat instructed Social Department to conduct data collection towards patriots' family. It aims to ease the city administration giving the aid.

I don't want to hear them suffering

"I don't want to hear them suffering. They are sick but not going to hospital. It means we don't appreciate their kindness. If the City Budget (APBD) is not budgeted yet, we will cover it personally," said Djarot, on the sidelines of National Patriot Funeral (TMPN) in Kalibata, South Jakarta, Thursday (9/3). 

Djarot told, citizens can also report if there are patriots' family living alone, and having no body take care of them. 

"It's a form of next generations' appreciation appreciating and upholding pioneers and patriot," he uttered. 

He also promised to increase the compensation to the widows of Indonesia's military servants (Warakawuri), patriot's family, independence pioneers and the widows in every year.

"The compensation is given routinely every year and it is regulated on Gubernatorial Regulations," he expressed.