Jakarta, April 8 -- The Finance Ministry confirmed that the middle and lower classes in Greater Jakarta or Jabodetabek will receive central government's food assistance during the application of Large-Scale Social Distancing (PSBB) policy to stop coronavirus (COVID-19) transmission.

"The government is preparing this scheme, and we have coordinated with the Ministry of Social Affairs to provide food aid, in the form of commodities, to support the PSBB policy," Askolani, the ministry's director general of budget affairs, remarked during an online teleconference here on Wednesday

The food package assistance, supported by President Joko Widodo (Jokowi), will be distributed in addition to other assistance schemes, including the Family Hope P...