ASIATODAY.ID, JAKARTA – The Ministry of Villages, Development of Disadvantaged Regions and Transmigration of the Republic of Indonesia and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) have agreed to continue the programs that have been carried out in Eastern Indonesia, especially assistance programs for villages.
“This collaboration must be continued because it has a positive impact. “There are several thousand heads of families who have been in the process, there are several hundred assistants who have done good assistance work,” said Minister of Villages, Development of Disadvantaged Regions and Transmigration Abdul Halim Iskandar when receiving an audience from IFAD Asia-Pacific Director Rihanna in Jakarta, Thursday, June 27, 2024.
Minister Halim said that the programs that have been carried out with IFAD include village assistance programs to increase food security, nutrition and family income in rural communities in Maluku, North Maluku, East Nusa Tenggara, Papua, Southwest Papua, West Papua, Papua Central, Mountainous Papua and South Papua.
Meanwhile, IFAD Asia-Pacific Director Rihanna assesses that the program that has been implemented over the last five years is important to continue with increasingly trained human resources and a more mature concept than before.
“This is a big program, a program that provides a lot of insight for society, so if it doesn’t continue it will actually cause problems in the future,” said Rihanna.
As a reference, cooperation between Villages, Development of Disadvantaged Regions, and Transmigration and IFAD will end in 2024, along with the change of President Joko Widodo’s leadership period. Nevertheless, Minister Halim guaranteed that the government transition would not disrupt the sustainability of the program which has helped many people in Eastern Indonesia.
“Even though there is a government transition, we guarantee that the IFAD program will continue and this IFAD program is one of the things that we highly recommend among other important programs. “This must continue, whoever the minister will continue in my position,” he added. (AT Network)
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