Operations Of The Red And White Kopdes Will Be Filled With PPPK Personnel

Illustration: Photo: Doc. ANTARA

JAKARTA - The government will place two to three Government Employees with Work Agreements (PPPK) in each Red and White Village Cooperative to support cooperative operations.

Deputy for Coordination of Commerce and Food Distribution at the Coordinating Ministry for Food, Tatang Yuliono, explained that this support aims to ease the operational burden of cooperatives, especially regarding the cost of human resources (HR).

"The Kemenpan RB has conveyed its commitment to support the distribution of two to three PPPKs, so cooperatives do not need to pay their human resources because they have been prepared by the state, cooperatives do not need to pay," Tatang said as quoted by ANTARA, Thursday, August 21.

Previously, the government held a coordination meeting at the level of ministries and institutions related to the technical consolidation of the National Task Force for the Acceleration of the Establishment of the Red and White Kopdes.

The coordination meeting was led by the Coordinating Minister for Food Affairs who is also the Head of the Task Force for the Acceleration of the Establishment of the Red and White Kopdes, Zulkifli Hasan.

The government targets 15,000 cooperatives to operate this month.

Zulkifli ensured the readiness across ministries and institutions as well as local governments to pursue this target.

"Currently, the focus of the President is that the operation of the Kopdes is accelerated because according to him, one way to make the country strong and the country able to strengthen food security is through this Village Cooperative," he said.

Sementara itu, Menteri Koperasi Budi Arie Setiadi menjelaskan sebagai upaya penguatan kelembagaan koperasi, Kemenkop telah melakukan berbagai program terkait peningkatan kapasitas SDM dan digitalisasi koperasi dengan melibatkan berbagai pihak seperti Kementerian Ketenagakerjaan, Kementerian Komunikasi dan Digital (Komdigi), serta pihak swasta hingga asosiasi.

“Ke depan akan dilaksanakan program lanjutan berupa sertifikasi pengurus koperasi. Dengan langkah ini, kita ingin memastikan seluruh pengurus Koperasi Desa memiliki kompetensi yang memadai sehingga koperasi dapat dikelola secara profesional dan berdaya saing,” kata Budi Arie.

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Meanwhile, Minister of Cooperatives Budi Arie Setiadi explained that as an effort to strengthen cooperative institutions, the Ministry of Cooperatives has carried out various programs related to increasing the capacity of human resources and digitizing cooperatives by involving various parties such as the Ministry of Manpower, the Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs (Komdigi), as well as private parties to associations.

"In the future, a follow-up program will be carried out in the form of certification of cooperative management. With this step, we want to ensure that all Village Cooperative administrators have adequate competence so that cooperatives can be managed professionally and competitively," said Budi Arie.