House of Representative Approves Rp 4.8 trillion of Rp 14.8 trillion for Ministry of Rural development and transmigration

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Commission V of House of Representative Approves Rp 4.8 trillion of Rp 14.8 trillion for Ministry of Rural development and transmigration proposed. Vice chairman of commission V of representative admitted that such budget is quite apprehensive. It is supposedly the budget increased and not otherwise decreased. In accordance with the letter of finance ministry, No S-549/MK.02/2016 the budget allocated for rural and transmigration ministry is 5 trillion for 2017. As it was discussed with commisson V, there is RP 202.8 difference of budget agreed.

The minister of rural and transmigration, eko putro sandjoyo stressed that such minimal budget approved will not lessen the optimism of his ministry to to allveiate the lagging areas. Eko explained to have prepared strategy to work on issue  and cooperating with 17 ministries. He underlines that the major program to focus on is to plan a village focusing on one flagship product.
There around 80 regencies lagging, reducing the undeveloped villages around 5000 and increasing the independent villages around 2000 villages.

The alleviation of lagging villages is in fact the further intrepreation of president's program to allocate at least Rp 1  million for the progress of the village. While it is the responsibility of rural and transmigration ministry to find the strategy optmizing the villages especially by bringing upward the flagship product of handycraft or small and medium enterprise to higher level.