JAKARTA - Minister of Villages for Development of Disadvantaged Regions and Transmigration (Mendes PDTT) Abdul Halim Iskandar assessed that infrastructure development through the Village Fund was effective.
"Utilization of the Village Fund for infrastructure development is very effective because the construction is carried out using a self-management model, not a third-party model," he said in a series of collaborations between the STAN Financial Polytechnic and the Kemendes PDTT which was followed online in Jakarta, Wednesday, June 22.
He stated that the use of the Village Fund from 2015 to 2021 for infrastructure includes the construction of 38,490 kilometers of village roads, 1,583,215 meters of bridges.
"The resulting infrastructure is no joke. The use of village funds for infrastructure development is very effective," he said, quoted by Antara.
During that period, he continued, the Village Fund was also used to support economic activities such as the construction of 12,244 village market units, 42,317 BUMDes activity units, 7,384 boat mooring units, 5,371 reservoirs, 80,120 irrigation units, 247,686 soil retaining units.
In addition to supporting the economic activities of the villagers, Mendes PDTT added that the Village Fund has also been used to improve the quality of life of the community in the form of 29,210 sports facilities, 1,27,423 clean water infrastructure, 443.884 MCK infrastructure, 14,401 polindes, and 45,517,578 drainage units. meters, 66,430 PAUD activities, 42,007 posyandu units, and were used to build 74,289 units of wells.
"There has been an extraordinary acceleration related to infrastructure development, what the community needs is infrastructure," he said.
According to him, the development sourced from village funds further confirms President Joko Widodo's commitment to developing Indonesia from the periphery, borders and villages.
He stated, from 2015 to 2021 the Village Fund that had been distributed was Rp. 400.1 trillion.
"In 2022, the Village Fund will be distributed to villages in the amount of IDR 68 trillion, and it will be allocated to 74,961 villages in 434 regencies/cities throughout Indonesia," said Abdul Halim Iskandar
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