Teten Unveils The Fate Of The Cooperative Bill After He Is Completed As Coordinating Minister For SMEs

Menkop UKM Teten Masduki (Photo: Theresia Agatha/VOI)

JAKARTA - Minister of Cooperatives and SMEs (Menkop UKM) Teten Masduki ensured that the discussion of the Cooperative Bill (RUU) could not be completed in the remaining leadership of President Joko Widodo (Jokowi).

This was conveyed by Teten when met by reporters after a meeting with the General Chair of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) Arsjad Rasjid at the Smesco Building, Jakarta, Wednesday, June 24.

"I conclude that the Cooperative Bill cannot be discussed, yes, because the time is too tight," he said.

Teten assessed that later further discussions on the Cooperative Bill would be continued in the era of the leadership of Elected President Prabowo Subianto-Gibran Rakabuming Raka. "Let the upcoming government continue," he said.

Previously, the Ministry of Cooperatives and SMEs (Kemenkop UKM) was optimistic that the discussion of the Cooperative Bill (RUU) would be completed in the rest of President Jokowi's leadership.

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.