Kemenkop UKM Confident That The Cooperative Bill Will Be Completed In The Jokowi Leadership Era

Expert Staff for Inter-Institutional Relations of the Ministry of Cooperatives and SMEs Riza Damanik. Photo: Theresia Agatha/VOI

BOGOR - The Ministry of Cooperatives and SMEs (Kemenkop UKM) is optimistic that the discussion of the Cooperative Bill (RUU) will be completed in the remaining leadership of President Joko Widodo (Jokowi).

Expert Staff for Inter-Institutional Relations of the Ministry of Cooperatives and SMEs Riza Damanik said, currently the Cooperative Bill is one of the focuses of the work of the Minister of Cooperatives and SMEs Teten Masduki.

"Currently, the Cooperative Bill is very important. Minister Teten also not only once or twice discussed this," Riza said at the 2024 Journalists Orientation in Bogor, West Java, Thursday, May 16.

In addition, Riza also assessed that it is not only the government that wants a better substance update in the Cooperative Bill. According to him, the DPR also wants the same thing related to this bill.

This is because the current bill is no longer relevant to the development of cooperatives today.

"We are still optimistic that in the remaining time (Jokowi's leadership) we can use to continue to encourage the birth of the new cooperative law," he said.

Previously reported, Deputy for SMEs for the Ministry of Cooperatives and SMEs (Kemenkop UKM) Hanung Harimba Rachman admitted that discussions on the Cooperative Bill (RUU) were not included in the agenda for discussing the DPR RI.

"Yesterday this was not included in the discussion at the DPR RI," said Hanung when met by VOI at the Smesco Building, Jakarta, Monday, March 25.

Hanung said that during a working meeting with Commission VI of the DPR RI in Jakarta on Tuesday, March 19, 2024, the Kemenkop UKM was asked to communicate with the Working Committee (Panja) of the DPR RI for discussion of this matter.

"So, he said the minister, right, we were asked to communicate with the chairman of the DPR RI committee to take place immediately. That, really, was a directive from there," he said.

He added that the DPR RI really wanted the regulation to be one of the legal products that they wanted to produce for the future.

"The DPR RI hopes this is a part that they can generate in their period. This is one of the laws they want to generate for this 5 year period," he said.