KDKMP is urged to evaluate! YLBHI: Controlled by Power or Military, Not Cooperatives
JAKARTA - Chairman of the Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (YLBHI) Muhamad Isnur urged the government to evaluate the Red and White Village/Neighborhood Cooperative Program (KDKMP). According to him, cooperatives controlled by the military power or structure are contrary to the basic principles of cooperatives as mandated by the constitution.
Isnur made the statement online in a Group Discussion Forum (FGD) entitled Monitoring the KDKMP and the Defense Ministry's Jumbo Budget: Testing its Compatibility with the Spirit of the Supreme Court Decision Number 28/PUU-XI/2013 on Cooperatives held in South Jakarta, Wednesday, July 15.
Isnur highlighted the KDKMP physical development financing scheme centered on PT Agrinas Pangan Nusantara as stipulated in Minister of Finance Regulation (PMK) Number 15 of 2026. According to him, this pattern has the potential to burden the village government.
"Villages have the potential to only be project addresses, while the fiscal burden and the risk of default are passed on to the village," said Isnur.
He emphasized that cooperatives must be born from the initiative and participation of the community, not formed through a command approach.
"Cooperatives that are built with command are not cooperatives. Cooperatives controlled by the state, companies, or military structures are not cooperatives. Cooperatives that burden villages without the sovereignty of the people are also not cooperatives," he said.
According to Isnur, the implementation of KDKMP in its current form has shifted from the values advocated by the founders of Indonesian cooperatives.
"The KDMP/KKMP program in its current form is a power project that piggybacks on the good name of cooperatives. It betrays Bung Hatta's spirit, the Constitutional Court's decision, Article 33 of the 1945 Constitution, the principle of village autonomy, the citizens' right to living space, and the TNI reform agenda," he said.
In the same forum, La Ode M. Faisal Akbar, a practitioner of State Law, assessed Presidential Instruction (Inpres) Number 9 of 2025 as basically in line with the Constitutional Court's Decision Number 28/PUU-XI/2013. However, he assessed that implementation in the field was not in line with the spirit of the rules.
"My view is that Presidential Decree Number 9 of 2025 is a representation of the Supreme Court's own decision. Only, we are concerned about the technical implementation that does not comply with the Presidential Decree. Moreover, there are outlets that are built far from people's settlements. This is ironic," he said.
Meanwhile, the Chairman of the DKI Jakarta GMNI DPD Deodus Sunda criticized the implementation of the KDKMP which he considered to be forced and had a too militaristic approach.
"So far we assess that this program is forced. Even the Presidential Decree issued by the President is not just one, there are Presidential Decrees Number 9, Number 17, and Number 25 to rush a program that will clearly become a fiscal burden on the state," he said.
He also touched on the large role of the military in a number of government programs that were considered to need public attention.
"This is still a suspicion, but if you look at the dominant role of the TNI not only in Kopdes and KNMP. However, the information will be a Presidential Decree that will strengthen the dominance of the military in the public sphere. It could be part of the consolidation towards the upcoming elections," he said.