Revitalisasi Pengungsi Sinabung, Kemenkop UKM Rangkul Bank Indonesia
Cooperative Ministry Invite Bank Indonesia to Revitalize Sinabung Refugees
Editor : M. Achsan Atjo
Translator : Dhelia Gani
Medan, Sumatera Utara (B2B) - Kantor Perwakilan Bank Indonesia (KPBI) Provinsi Sumatera Utara di Medan menyambut baik kunjungan tim revitalisasi pengungsi Sinabung dari Kementerian Koperasi dan Usaha Kecil dan Menengah (UKM). Kunjungan tersebut menindaklanjuti pembicaraan Deputi Bidang Pengkajian Kemenkop dan UKM, Meliadi Sembiring dengan pimpinan Bank Indonesia (BI) di Jakarta, belum lama ini.
Deputi Direktur KPBI Medan, Budi Trisnanto menyambut baik kunjungan Asisten Deputi Urusan Penelitian UKM, Karimuddin Daud dan Asisten Deputi Urusan Pengkaderan UKM, Asep Kamarudin untuk mewakili Meliadi Sembiring yang berhalangan hadir ke Medan karena alasan dinas.
Turut hadir dalam audiensi tersebut, Peneliti Utama Kemenkop UKM, Teuku Syarif dan Kepala Bidang Penyelenggaraan Asdep Urusan Penelitian UKM, Rudy Witjaksono yang hadir untuk memberikan paparan tentang kendala dan prospek di relokasi Siosar. Fokus utama adalah kegiatan penelitian kesiapan SDM UMKM dalam menghadapi Masyarakat Ekonomi ASEAN (MEA).
"Saya dijadwalkan hadir untuk koordinasi dengan KPBI Sumut terkait revitalisasi Sinabung, tapi dengan sangat terpaksa saya cancel. Tujuan tim ke Medan mencoba meminta dukungan BI untuk memanfaatkan semacam dana CSR bagi kepentingan pengungsi Sinabung," kata Meliadi Sembiring yang ditemui di Jakarta, belum lama ini sebelum tim yang diutusnya bertolak menuju Medan pada Rabu pagi (15/4).
Keterangan Meliadi dibenarkan oleh Budi Trisnanto bahwa BI melalui kantor perwakilannya di seluruh Indonesia, termasuk KPBI di Medan memiliki divisi khusus yang dinamai Divisi Advisory Pengembangan Ekonomi Daerah.
"Kami senang nanti bisa dilibatkan di kegiatan ini, memang kami punya juga program pengembangan ekonomi UMKM. BI di Sumatera Utara itu ada tiga kantor yakni Medan, Sibolga dan Pematang Siantar," kata Budi Trisnanto yang juga menjabat Kepala Divisi Advisory Pengembangan Ekonomi Daerah BI Sumatera Utara (Sumut).
Menurutnya, langkah Deputi Bidang Pengkajian Kemenkop dan UKM, Meliadi Sembiring mengutus dua asisten deputinya ke Medan sudah tepat untuk revitalisasi pengungsi Sinabung di Kabupaten Karo. Sampai saat ini KPBI Sumut telah mengembangkan klaster bawang merah dan kluster hortikultura di Kabupaten Karo.
Medan, Indonesia (B2B) - The Representative Offices of Bank Indonesia in Medan North Sumatra Province, known as the KPBI, welcomed the visit team Sinabung refugees revitalization of the Indonesian Cooperatives and Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Ministry. The visit followed up talks Deputy Assessment and SMEs, Meliadi Sembiring with the leadership of Bank Indonesia (BI) in Jakarta recently.
Deputy Director of KPBI Medan, Budi Trisnanto welcomed the visit of Deputy Assistant Research of SMEs, Karimuddin Daud and Deputy Assistant Cadre of SMEs, Asep Kamarudin to represent their boss, Meliadi Sembiring who was unable to attend to Medan for reasons of duty.
Also present at the meeting, Senior Researcher at the ministry, Teuku Syarif, and Head of Division Research Affairs for Deputy Assistant, Rudy Witjaksono who attended to give an exposition of the problems and prospects in the relocation Siosar. The main focus of the research activities of SMEs HR readiness to face the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC).
"I was scheduled to Medan to coordinate with representatives of Bank Indonesia in Medan related revitalization Sinabung refugees, but I was forced to cancel. The aim to Medan requesting support the central bank to take advantage of CSR funds for refugees Sinabung," Meliadi Sembiring said in Jakarta recently before the team sent by him went to Medan on Wednesday (15/4).
Mr Sembiring statement is justified by Mr Trisnanto that BI through its representative office in Indonesia, including KPBI in Medan has a special division called the Regional Economic Development Advisory Division.
"We are delighted to be involved in this activity, indeed we have a program of economic development of SMEs. Bank Indonesia in North Sumatra that there are three offices namely Medan, Sibolga and Pematangsiantar," Mr Trisnanto said Budi who also served as Chief of the Division of Regional Economic Development Advisory BI North Sumatra (Sumatra).
According to him, step of Meliadi Sembiring sent two deputy assistant to the Medan is right for revitalization Sinabung refugees. Until now KPBI Sumatra has developed a cluster of red onion and horticulture cluster in Karo District.