Jakarta, March 27 -- Social Affairs Minister Saifullah Yusuf has invited Forestry Minister Raja Juli Antoni to support poverty elimination through community empowerment programs run by the Ministry of Forestry.

This was conveyed during a meeting between the two ministers in Jakarta on Thursday.

"We want these (vulnerable, poor, and extremely poor) groups to be empowered by programs of ministries, such as the Ministry of Forestry," Minister Yusuf said in a written statement issued here on Thursday.

He informed that the data on vulnerable, poor, and extremely poor groups that will be used for the program will be based on the National Integrated Socio-Economic Data (DTSEN).

He said that information regarding people who are no longer bene...