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The order came a day before President Joko Widodo was to visit victims of the Mount Sinabung eruption in Karo regency, North Sumatra, three weeks ago. Bambang Widianto, executive secretary of the Poverty Eradication Acceleration Team, needed to prepare thousands of social assistance cards to distribute to evacuees.

"The president went to Sinabung on October 29, and I was given the order a day before that," he said to Tempo at his office on Jalan Kebon Sirih in Central Jakarta last week.

November 18, 2014

The order came a day before President Joko Widodo was to visit victims of the Mount Sinabung eruption in Karo regency, North Sumatra, three weeks ago. Bambang Widianto, executive secretary of the Poverty Eradication Acceleration Team, needed to prepare thousands of social assistance cards to distribute to evacuees.

"The president went to Sinabung on October 29, and I was given the order a day before that," he said to Tempo at his office on Jalan Keb

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