Coordinating Minister (Menko) for Food Zulkifli Hasan or Zulhas stated that the government is currently intensively building village cooperatives (Kopdes) as part of efforts to build a sustainable village economic ecosystem.
According to him, President Prabowo Subianto not only wants to achieve self-sufficiency in food, but also to build an entire economic ecosystem in villages. This includes aspects of health, community nutrition, income, and the health insurance of villagers.
"How will his health be, how will the nutrition of the village community, how will their income be, guarantee his health. This is an ecosystem that we will build through the Kopdes later. So all village economic activities will go through the village cooperative," he told the media crew, Sunday, April 20.
Zulhas conveyed that through Kopdes, all economic activities in the village will be managed centrally and efficiently where one of the goals is to cut the long supply chain, such as the distribution of basic necessities directly from producers to cooperatives, or fertilizers from factories directly to cooperatives.
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In addition, he added that related to the distribution of LPG which has been complicated, it can later be directly from Pertamina to village cooperatives.
"Those are examples of cutting the long supply chain, also avoiding eliminating what we call middle man or tengkulak-tengkulak. Those are policy examples," he said.
Zulhas added that the government will also tidy up environmental regulations, especially regarding the increasingly mounting management of waste, as well as structuring areas that should be protected areas but have turned into housing.
Furthermore, he conveyed that the Ministry of Maritime Affairs is focusing on developing ponds, especially in Java Island covering an area of 20 thousand hectares, to meet the protein needs of fish for the community.
"Because if we don't have enough nutrition, we won't be able to compete with the outside world. That's it, we have to make the best for Indonesia," he said.
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