Jakarta, Sept. 19 -- President Prabowo Subianto on Friday summoned Social Affairs Minister Saifullah Yusuf to the Presidential Palace in Jakarta to receive updates on efforts to improve the accuracy of government aid distribution.

Arriving at the palace in the afternoon, Yusuf reported that the government had removed about 1.9 million citizens from the list of social assistance recipients following a recent data update.

"Over 1.9 million people have been declared no longer eligible to receive social aid. Consequently, we shifted their quota to those more deserving," he told the press.

The minister assured the public that the government is committed to tightening aid allocation and distribution procedures to ensure assistance strictly b...