Menkop Ferry: Minister Of Finance Now Has One Mazhab With Us

JAKARTA - Minister of Cooperatives (Menkop) Ferry Juliantono said, the Minister of Finance (Menkeu) is now one school or flow.

This was revealed by Ferry in his remarks at the Investor Daily Summit entitled "New Economic Order" at the Jakarta Convention Center, Wednesday, October 8.

Ferry initially explained that currently the Red and White Village/Kel Village Cooperative (Kopdes/Kel) is entering its operational stage.

The process, he said, received the support of President Prabowo Subianto and Minister of Finance Purbaya Yudhi Sadive.

"Then from the Minister of Finance who has also been in the same meeting with us. Applause for the Minister of Finance," said Ferry followed by applause from the audience.

Then Ferry linked the theme of the event today, namely "New Economic Order" with the Minister of Finance Purbaya, who is now in the same school.

"If you want a new economic order, at least the Minister of Cooperatives and the Minister of Finance have one school. If it's different, you can't do that," he said.

He said that the task of the Minister of Finance at this time is to find idle money that can be used by the Ministry of Cooperatives (Kemenkop) to be distributed to villages in the Kopdes/Kel Merah Putih program.

To note, the Red and White Kopdes/Kel can now take advantage of financing support from state-owned banks (Himbara) after the government transferred Rp200 trillion of government funds stored in Bank Indonesia (BI) accounts to five state-owned banks.

Coordinating Minister for Food Zulkifli Hasan (Zulhas) said that the Rp200 trillion fund that had been placed in Himbara banks could support the financing of the Red and White Kopdes/Kel and this was long awaited news, especially by more than 80,000 units of the Kopdes/Kel Merah Putih.

"Even though we have been together with the government, how long have we waited for this? It's been months, yes. Well, we saw, heard, read and already knew firsthand that the Minister of Finance had set Rp200 trillion in hebara," Zulhas told the media crew at his office, Monday, September 15.

"We have been waiting for this, it has been months and now it is there. Therefore, I think the loan for the Red and White Village Cooperative is already there, there is already capital," he added.