Jakarta, April 5 (Antara) - The government is committed to developing villages in an effort to improve the welfare of people in rural areas across the country.
To advance development in rural areas, the government over the past three years has allocated some Rp190.65 trillion in village fund program to build infrastructure facilities.
"The government has succeeded in building village roads of up to 121,709 kilometers in all corners of Indonesia within three years of implementing the village fund program, an achievement which has never been made in Indonesia's history," Director General of Rural Area Development of the Disadvantaged Region and Transmigration Ministry, Ahmad Erani Yustika, stated in Magelang, Central Java, on Monday (April 2).
The funds used for the village program is set aside through state budget (APBN). Therefore, its use should be audited. The Government's Development Finance Comptroller (BPKP) is urged to audit the use of the funds.
The BPKP should act proactively in carrying out control and prevention of abuse of the village funds.
"Village funds sourced from APBN should be allocated appropriately, targeting village-level development that benefits the public," legislator Mukhammad Misbakhun of Commission XI of the House of Representatives (DPR) said at a discussion in Pasuruan District, East Java, on Tuesday (April 3).
According to Misbakhun, BPKP, which has representatives in all provinces in Indonesia, has an important role in preventing the misuse or possible mismanagement of village funds that could become a criminal case.
Prevention by BPKP is a commitment to keep village heads from any criminal risks due to mismanagement of village funds. "I do not want any village head to breach the law regarding the management of the village funds," said Misbakhun.
Misbakhun who is a Golkar Party politician added, President Joko Widodo has continued to raise the amount of the village budget for the sake of accelerating development in rural areas. The budget for the village funds amounted to Rp20.67 trillion in 2015; Rp49.98 trillion in 2016; and Rp60 trillion in 2017 and in 2018 each.
The government, through its village fund program, has since 2015 built 121,709 kilometers of village roads in remote areas across the country, providing villagers with easy mobility.
The achievements have been recorded in the Indonesian World Record Museum, or Muri, he noted in a scientific oration on the 4th Anniversary of Tidar University, Magelang City.
He remarked that through the village fund program, the government has also built bridges, reaching a total length of over 1,960 km across Indonesia; 5,220 village markets; 21,811 village-owned enterprises; 5,116 boat piers; 2,047 retention basins; 41,379 drainage projects; and 2,366 sports facilities.
Rural communities have also felt the use of village funds in the form of construction of 291,393 units of land concrete walls; 32,711 clean water channels; 82,358 washing latrines; 6,504 village polyclinics; 21,357 early childhood education centers; 14,176 posyandu (integrated health service posts); and 45,865 wells.
He explained that the number of villages receiving the program has also increased from year to year, partly due to the division of villages and the change in the status of urban villages to rural villages.
In 2015, villages receiving funds accounted for 74,093 villages. The number increased to 74,754 villages in 2016 and 74,910 villages in 2017. At the beginning of 2018, there were 74,958 villages.
"Construction of road infrastructure in rural areas all over Indonesia reached 123.15 thousand kilometers under the government of President Joko Widodo (Jokowi)," Minister for Rural and Backward Area Development and Transmigration Eko Putro Sandjojo had previously said.
There were rural infrastructure projects built with village funds such as land support, boat berthing places, drinking water plants, water reservoirs, rural irrigation, health centers and sport centers. "We hope village chiefs and villagers could be encouraged by what have been achieved to continue developing their villages," Minister Sandjojo said.
What have been achieved in infrastructure development in rural areas exceeded the record in the Indonesian Record Museum (MURI) in the past three years, he said.
The rural infrastructure projects were built with the rural fund budget of Rp127 trillion.
According to Director General of Rural Area Development of the Disadvantaged Region and Transmigration Ministry, Ahmad Erani Yustika, village funds encourage communities to participate in discussions, planning, and implementation of programs for village development.
In addition, the program also strengthened the villagers' spirit of community-based mutual help. The implementation of the program should be done by villagers themselves and should not be given to a third party, he revealed.
He added that universities are involved in the implementation of the village fund programs in a number of regions in Indonesia, especially for mentoring, empowerment, community skills training, and research.***3*** (A014/H-YH )(T.A014/A/BESSR/A/Yosep) 05-04-2018 00:02: |
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