Deputy Governor of Papua Distributes Basic Food Assistance

Deputy Governor of Papua Distributes Basic Food Assistance

Papua Deputy Governor Klemen Tinal distributes the Papua provincial government's food aid in the form of local food needs and nine basic ingredients for residents affected by the corona virus (COVID-19) in Yoka Village in Jayapura City, Friday.

Distribution of groceries affected by COVID-19 residents of Yoka village as many as 566 families received assistance in the form of rice, cooking oil, chicken eggs, biscuits, ginger coffee, vegetables, onions, tomatoes as well as local foods such as taro, sago and sweet potatoes.

Papua Deputy Governor Klemen Tinal acknowledged that the distribution of staples to COVID-19 affected residents was a government program that had taken place in several locations of villages, orphanages, boarding schools and Nusantara community organizations.

"For today the Papua Provincial Government has prepared basic food assistance for hundreds of family heads in Yoka Village, I hope that this assistance will hopefully ease the burden of community needs during the COVID-19 pandemic," hoped Deputy Governor Klemen Tinal.

He acknowledged that the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak had had an economic impact on indigenous Papuans in the villages, with the Papuan situation being a COVID-19 pandemic, residents had to be able to utilize land in their residential yards by planting various types of local food such as taro, sweet potatoes, sago as food supplies for family needs.

By growing local food, according to Deputy Governor Klemen Tinal, citizens are no longer dependent on the need for rice as daily food. "The Papua Provincial Government is very supportive of the program to plant land, so this is one of the efforts of the residents to maintain household food security," he said.

Yoka village head Antonius Mebri expressed his gratitude to the Papua Provincial Government for distributing basic food assistance to residents of Yoka village. "Providing basic food assistance has greatly helped the community in meeting the needs of families in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic situation," he said.

Accompanying Deputy Governor of Klinal Tinal, officials of the Papua Provincial Government apparatus, Danrem 172 / PWY Col. Inf Boni Christian Pardede, Acting Secretary of Papua Dr. Ridwan Rumasukun, Head of the Bank of Papua Province Representative Naek Tigor Sinaga and members of the Papua People's Assembly (MRP).