Eradicate Poverty, Vice President Ma'ruf Asks East Kalimantan To Facilitate Community Business Permits

Vice President Ma'ruf Amin (Photo: Antara)

SAMARINDA - Vice President Ma'ruf Amin asked the East Kalimantan Provincial Government to facilitate the issuance of business permits for the community, as a support for the national economic recovery.

This was conveyed in a joint meeting with the ranks of the East Kalimantan Provincial Government as well as the district and city governments. The Vice President emphasized that the empowerment of business actors is a step for the welfare of the community.

"One of the empowerment efforts is to encourage the empowerment of micro-enterprises, including household businesses and micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs). No less important is the ease of granting business permits," said the Vice President while chairing a meeting on Community Economic Empowerment and Public Services in Office of the Governor of East Kalimantan, Samarinda, reported by Antara, Monday, November 2.

The Vice President continued, empowering the community of MSME actors is also an effort to solve poverty in the community. So, he continued, poverty alleviation does not only depend on social assistance (bansos) from the government.

"In addition to providing social assistance, we need to strengthen intervention through empowerment programs. Providing social assistance alone will not lead to sustainable poverty alleviation," he stressed. , processing industry, handicrafts, trade and services.

The East Kalimantan Provincial Government has also included MSMEs in the procurement of goods and services for the Provincial Government.

"Cost coverage, guidance and assistance for micro-enterprises in business licensing and legal assistance, utilization of 30 percent of public infrastructure for business development and promotion of MSMEs; policy on the implementation of the allocation of 40 percent of government procurement of goods and services for MSMEs," said Isran.

The distribution of people's business loans (KUR) in East Kalimantan has also increased until mid-October 2021, he said, with soft credit disbursement for MSME players reaching IDR 3.35 trillion until October 19, 2021.

"We need to report that the distribution of people's business credit in East Kalimantan has increased significantly," he said.