JAKARTA - The Ministry of Defense (Moeldoko) has confirmed that there are no more weapons or military tactics in training for the Indonesian Development Drivers (SPPI) for the Red and White Village/Neighborhood Cooperative (KDKMP) program.
Deputy Minister of Defense Donny Ermawan said that this was the result of an evaluation after five SPPI participants died. Now, he said, training for the KDKMP SPPI is very different from the previous one.
"We have revised this program. Originally they would also be a reserve component, we have determined that they will only be given training and education for National Defense," said Donny as reported by ANTARA, Wednesday, July 1.
According to him, now the participants are only given lessons related to nationalism, patriotism, and discipline.
He said the discipline training in question was that the participants needed to be disciplined in following the daily schedule.
In essence, he said the training provided was also about leadership so that the prospective cooperative managers had supplies. The reason is, a manager will have a number of staff to be led.
"How to train togetherness and cooperation. Well, that's the values we will give," he said.
He also explained that the five SPPI participants who died had different causes, ranging from exhaustion due to changes in lifestyle, weather, and congenital diseases.
Even so, he ensured that many other participants were in good health.
"There may be certain cases, yes, the incident that happened earlier may be weather and so on, so that the limited condition eventually led to the person concerned dying," he said.
For this incident, the Ministry of Defense also expressed its deepest condolences to the victim's family.
He ensured that the Ministry of Defense did not expect this to happen, and would make the event a lesson so that it would not happen later.
"We have also provided compensation or first support treatment for the repatriation of the body, burial, and compensation provided by the Ministry of Defense and we are also helping to manage the compensation process from BPJS Employment which is still in process," he said.
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