Recommendations of Cash Social Assistance (BST) Recipients for People Affected by Covid-19 Using AHP-TOPSIS
Erliyan Redy Susanto, Ajeng Savitri Puspaningrum, Zaenal Abidin · 2023
The coronavirus disease pandemic that began in 2019 had an extraordinary impact. Not only in the health aspect but also in various other aspects of people's lives. One of the most severe aspects is the economy of the community. Many people whose income is disturbed even must be laid off from work. Therefore, the government of the Republic of Indonesia adopted various policies to solve these problems. Cash Social Assistance (BST) is one of the government's policies to overcome the community's economic problems. However, in various media outlets, it was reported that there were indications that BST was not on target. There are many allegations that BST recipients are close to social service officials and even the head of the local neighborhood association. The purpose of this research is to propose analytical techniques as recommendations to the local government for prospective BST recipients. Thus, the determination of BST recipients can be more objective. This research uses the AHP method to analyze prospective BST recipients based on several established criteria. TOPSIS is used to determine prospective BST recipients based on the analysis results using AHP. The results of this study included 21 people who were recommended as BST recipients and are compared to the data owned by the Social Service office to see the accuracy.