The
Minister of Development for Less Developed Regions and Transmigration Narwan
Jafa started that bottleneck in pipelining of village fund was not at Central
Government but at Regency level. He said the Government had distributed village
fund to Regencies and Towns but they had not passed the fund on the fund to the
villages.
Marwan reckoned that slow
distribution of village fund was due to requirements by Regent’s Regulations to
be fulfilled by the respective villages. President Joko Widodo had commanded
the fund liquidation process be accelerated. For that matter the Ministry has
fostered coordination with Regents, Moyors and local leaders.
Accordingly the Ministry they had
amended the Rural Law to simplify the rules. This week we already had made
Joint declaration by 3 Ministries. The Ministry of PDT the Ministry of Internal
Affairs and the Ministry of Finance to revise all existing regulations so there
is only one Umbrella Law for all. The objective was to ease fund liquidation
and make it easy for Village Heads to obey the Existing Regulations” Marwan
said while quoting 3 point in the Joint Declaration on the procedures of
pipelining of village fund, utilization easier.
Furthermore Marwan stated there were
two prioritized programs recommended by the Governments to Village Heads for
the utilization of the fund, i.e. to build roads and irrigations. If the
Villages progressed and irrigations were well managed, Marwan said , the third
alternative was economic strengthening like developing livestock farm, UMKM small
business, handicrafts etc. “The target is that all funds be liquids this month
so Phase Two supposedly in September or hopefully early October. For the first
stage the villages being prioritized were 40% of Rp.20 trillion, phase two 40% of
20 trillion and phase there for three for the rest” he said. (SS)
Business New - September 11, 2015
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