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After the Covid-19 outbreak, the economic crisis has increased in my country, namely Indonesia, until now economic inflation cannot be avoided, where the price of food needs has increased so sharply that it has had a huge impact on the lower middle class, even though the government has made recovery efforts. through community welfare assistance programs, namely BLT and other social assistance, but this seems to be in vain because food needs are increasing while monthly income or wages do not support it at all because they do not increase, perhaps this is the main cause of inflation, for example food prices such as eggs increasing from 45 thousand to 55-58 thousand per kilogram, not to mention rice from 18 thousand to 22-25 thousand per kilogram, and many other types of food also increased,

I also live in Indonesia, I know we are in the economic crisis since the pandemic happening. Yes, our government already made some efforts, but I don't think they made effective solutions. BLT is the example of a useless effort, it is just an instant money given by the government. Since the number of money is rather small, it sometimes only last few days. Even in certain cases, some people who got the BLT program spend all the money in a day. I think it is much better if the government provide the jobs for the people. When the people get regular jobs, they can get the money themselves. They can get the foods with their own efforts.

when I see BLT recipients they don't use it according to their needs, most of them actually use it for consumptive needs, and this clearly doesn't help much to reduce the suffering resulting from the economic crisis. I think that the government and society are not in sync in conveying their intentions, but currently society seems to be forced to be friendly with the increase in basic prices in particular, until now the concern is the increase in the price of rice which is our staple food, hopefully we will all always be given health so that we can work to fulfill our daily needs, because the long dry season has made many people sick at this time

It is difficult for small communities to reject the Government's decision to increase fuel costs, even though it is stated that there are wrong targets, deviations including gratification (corruption) must be sanctioned, and the Government must be responsible, not the people who are victims.

BLT is indeed good for helping small people, but BLT both adds to the burden on the APBN deficit, and many BLTs are also misdirected, the sanctions are not just being told to return them, that is Corruption, and is prone to Corruption. The lower class is resigned, even though they are given BLT, if subsidized fuel goes up, the price of everything goes up, it will still be a burden on the little people. I also agree that BLT is not effective in solving this problem. The government should increase labor wages and employee wages.