JAKARTA - The government has confirmed that the selection process for the Red and White Village/Neighborhood Cooperative (Kopdes/kel) managers is carried out openly and there is no practice of patronage in the recruitment.
"There is none. It is guaranteed that there is no deposit. If later there are people who say that there is a deposit by paying so much, it is definitely a fraud," said Deputy Minister of Cooperatives Farida Farichah as reported by ANTARA, Friday, May 8.
He said the selection process was carried out through the national selection committee (Panselnas) which involved a number of institutions, with the main coordination being under the Regulation Agency or BP BUMN and the technical implementation of recruitment was carried out by the State Civil Service Agency (BKN).
Regarding the report of a computer-assisted test (CAT) system disruption in the selection of cooperative managers, which was widely reported by test participants through social media, the Minister of Home Affairs said that the report had been coordinated with BKN and Panselnas under the Ministry of State Apparatus and Bureaucratic Reform (PANRB).
"We have coordinated reports from social media with BKN and also the Panselnas under PAN RB... further explanation will certainly be delivered by BKN as the technical executor," he said.
The recruitment process for the manager of the Red and White Village/Village Cooperative is currently entering the competency test stage which will take place on May 3-12, 2026. A total of 483,648 applicants were recorded to pass the administrative selection and are entitled to participate in this stage.
The government has scheduled an announcement of the final results of the selection on June 7, 2026.
Participants who are declared to have passed will later undergo basic military training for the reserve component (Komcad), as well as managerial training and competence in the field as part of the preparation of human resources (HR) for village cooperative managers.
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