Pamekasan, East Java, May 11 -- Indonesian Social Affairs Minister Saifullah Yusuf urged Islamic boarding schools, or pesantren, to assist the government with social welfare data updates to ensure the optimal implementation of national priority programs introduced by President Prabowo Subianto.

"I would like to call on clerics to participate in updating data. Those teaching in pesantren are expected to input information on their students into the data system we have," he said in Pamekasan, East Java, on Sunday (May 10).

He delivered the appeal during a dialogue on government programs at a university, addressing pesantren operators from across Madura Island's districts of Pamekasan, Bangkalan, Sampang, and Sumenep.

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