REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- The National Team for the Acceleration of Poverty Reduction (TNP2K) will be maintained as it has a strategic role in updating the data on poverty, according to Vice President Jusuf Kalla.

"We will certainly maintain the existence of TNP2K because it has an important and strategic role to update the data on poverty," the vice president remarked after visiting the TNP2K office here on Tuesday.

During the visit to the TNP2K office, Kalla was accompanied by National Development Planning Minister/National Development Planning Board (Bappenas) Chief Andrinof Chaniago, Coordinating Minister for Culture and Human Development Puan Maharani, and Social Affairs Minister Khofifah Indra Parawansa.

The vice president noted that the data updated and processed by the TNP2K will then be submitted to the respective ministries for making further policies or decisions.