Indonesia, Aug. 22 -- Indonesia's Social Affairs Ministry has selected Banyuwangi District in East Java as a pilot project area for Social and Economic Empowerment and Poverty Alleviation Program (PPSE), following the success on digitalisation of social protection programmes.

Expert Staff at the Minister, Andy Kurniawan, said the appointment was linked to the success of Banyuwangi in piloting social protection digitalisation, a programme that has since expanded to 43 districts and cities across Indonesia.

"We cannot test this poverty alleviation model in many places at once, we have to focus on a specific location. That is why we chose Banyuwangi as a pilot model and we hope the success of the social protection programme is repeated her...