100 Poor Families in Papua and West Papua Get Free Electricity

100 Poor Families in Papua and West Papua Get Free Electricity

PLN (State Electricity Company) Main Unit of Papua and West Papua, through the One Man One Hope Program, provides free electricity connection to 100 poor families in the 3T areas, which are lagging, outermost and outermost.
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UIWP2B General Manager (Papua and West Papua Territory Main Unit) Ari Dartomo in Jayapura on Sunday said the program was a voluntary fundraising social movement of PLN employees and subsidiaries. Free electricity connection is also a voluntary fundraising social movement of PLN employees and subsidiaries that began last October.
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Ari Dartomo hopes that this program can help people whose households have not been electrified. "Fundraising began to be carried out simultaneously by PLN in Indonesia last October, where the target recipients of this assistance were the people in the 3T area," he said.
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Aid recipients are scattered in the PLN UIWP2B working area with details, namely Merauke 14 customers, Biak 22 customers, Nabire 22 customers, Jayapura 22 customers, Manokwari 8 customers, and Timika 12 customers.
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According to Ari, he hopes that programs like this can continue to help people who have not yet been electrified by their territories. "We hope this program can improve both the economy and education," he explained, Sunday (12/15).
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Ruthera Gebze, a recipient of the One Man One Hope aid in Merauke, thanked PLN, for its assistance with electrifying the house, at this time the family could feel the light at night.
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Based on data from the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, the ratio of Electricity Villages (RDB) in Papua and West Papua Provinces now stands at 98.3 percent, achieved through the contribution of PT PLN (Persero) by 48.5 percent, and the remainder of the LTSHE (Energy-Saving Solar Light) program. from the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources and local government initiatives. While the national PLN electrification ratio reached 98.86 percent.