Cooperatives and Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Minister Teten Masduki has urged everyone to pursue the ministry’s six priority programs and formulate fresh ideas to enable finance and market accessibility for cooperatives and SMEs.
“We have to stop working just (for the sake of it). This mindset needs to be changed. Start to (adopt) the spirit to develop a people-oriented economy, which is the basis of our work,” he said at the opening of the 2022 Cooperatives, MSMEs, and Entrepreneurship Planning Technical Coordination Meeting in Bali on Monday.
In an official statement received here the same day, Masduki informed that he is collaborating with stakeholders on the priority programs to encourage national economic recovery.
Currently, 70 percent of the national economic recovery program is being coordinated by the Cooperatives and SMEs Ministry, thus collaboration between stakeholders is needed in order to realize the economic welfare of the people.
“Don’t just work (for) budget absorption. We have to change that into a full commitment to work,” the minister remarked.
The ministry is currently pursuing six priority programs, including complete data collection on cooperatives and micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs); a major project for the integrated management of MSMEs; as well as the implementation of Presidential Decree No. 2 of 2022 regarding National Entrepreneurship Development.
The programs also include the redesigning of the Center for Integrated Cooperatives and Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (PLUT); the establishment of the new PLUT as a center of excellence; the setting up of modern cooperatives through food corporatization; and extreme poverty eradication.
His administration is seeking to ensure that the six agendas can be pursued through collaboration between deputies and regional governments in order to boost productivity and the quality of MSME products, which, in turn, would help push the entrepreneurship goal.
“I want to say that the synergy (required in these) programs is very important. Integrating cooperatives and SMEs productivity and adding new entrepreneurs in order to (improve),” he said.
Source: Antara News