OK OCE Failed To Overcome Poverty, PDIP: Anies Baswedan Has No Clear Program, Only Focuses On Beautifying Sidewalks

The Governor of DKI Jakarta, Anies Baswedan. (Photo: DKI Jakarta Provincial Government Public Relations)

JAKARTA - Deputy Chairperson of the PDIP Faction at the DPRD DKI Ima Mahdia revealed the latest developments in the One District One Center of Entrepreneurship (OK OCE) program.

This program has been a mainstay of DKI Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan and former DKI Deputy Governor Sandiaga Uno since the 2017 DKI Regional Election. The results are really disappointing.

"From the promise to create 200,000 jobs and new entrepreneurs, until 2020 only 8,348 OKE OCE have obtained micro and small business licenses or only 4 percent of MSMEs have been breached," said Ima in a written statement, Wednesday, April 21.

In a glimpse of this program, the DKI Pemprov has a role in providing training and business assistance. Then, MSMEs that are included in OK OCE will only be helped to get access to capital in banks, not paid. OK OCE is just a bridge between Bank DKI and the program participants.

According to Ima, this number is very small when compared to the target in the regional medium-term program plan (RPJMD) for 2017-2022. In fact, Anies' tenure is only one and a half years away.

Ima considered that the jamming of the OK OCE program was continuous with the increasing poverty rate in Jakarta. It is recorded that the percentage of poverty headcount in DKI Jakarta as of March 2020 was 4.53 percent, from last year's 3.42 March.

Ima said that the increase in the poverty rate was due to Anies being too focused on the program of beautifying the center of Jakarta. Such as the arrangement of sidewalks on Jalan Jenderal Sudirman to MH Thamrin, as well as the revitalization of pedestrian bridges.

"Governor Anies Baswedan does not have a clear program to alleviate the poverty rate and he seems to only focus on beautification programs," said Ima.

Likewise, the chairman of the PDIP faction of the DKI DPRD, Gembong Warsono, assessed that the OK OCE program is currently not running after former Deputy Governor of DKI Sandiaga Uno resigned from his position.

"The target is 200 thousand new entrepreneurs from the OK OCE program. But, because OK OCE his spirit is in Sandi, it is now gone," he said.

Gembong considered Anies reluctant to continue OK OCE because the program was mostly played by Sandiaga Uno when he was still Deputy Governor of DKI.

In fact, Gembong thought the program was a good thing to do. "If it is resolved, Mr. Anies, I will give you a thumbs up. My four thumbs, two toes, two thumbs up," added Gembong.