Jakarta (Antara) - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) and his entourage left Jakarta for East Java and Central Java on Monday morning for a working visit to the two provinces.
The presidential aircraft carrying the president and his entourage took off from Halim Perdanakusuma airport at 7.05 am for Abdul Rahman Saleh airport in Malang, East Java, where the president will make an overland trip to Blitar.
In Blitar, the head of state will attend Pancasila Sanctity Day ceremony on Monday.
After that, the president will leave for Central Java to attend the ceremony of Waisak Day at the Borobudur temple in Magelang.
During the visit, President Jokowi is accompanied by among others Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Tedjo Edhy Purdijatno, Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform Minister Yuddy Chrisnandi, and National Police Chief General Badrodin Haiti.
While in Central Java, President Jokowi is scheduled to distribute three welfare cards: the "Indonesian Health Cards (KIS), Indonesian Smart Cards (KIP), and the Prosperous Family Cards (KKS)" to some local residents.
Earlier in past weeks, President Jokowi has handed out similar social cards to the people of numerous regions in Central Java, Papua, and even in Jakarta.
To the recipients of the cards, the president asked them to use the cards as well as possible so as to provide great benefits for improved welfare.
He affirmed that the KIP will guarantee that all school-aged children from disadvantaged families will receive financial assistance for education until they complete high school or vocational school.
This program will gradually expand to reach as many as 24 million school-aged children, including those with social welfare problems and school-aged children from disadvantaged families who were previously not covered.
While the KIP will also cover school-aged children not enrolled in schools such as street children, child laborers, orphans, and the disabled.(*)(*)
