Bantuan Traktor Tangan untuk Petani Soppeng dan Bone
The Indonesian Govt Provide Assistance Hand Tractors for the Farmers
Editor : M. Achsan Atjo
Translator : Dhelia Gani
Soppeng, Sulawesi Selatan (B2B) - Warga di Kabupaten Soppeng, khususnya di Kecamatan Liliriaja berbondong-bondong mendatangi alun-alun di pusat kota kecamatan tersebut. Kabupaten Soppeng dan Kabupaten Bone bagian timur provinsi Sulawesi Selatan akan kedatangan tamu penting dari Jakarta.
"Katanya bapak menteri pertanian dan gubernur mau datang ke sini pakai helikopter ke sini. Makanya kita datang. Bapak dari mana?" kata Samsudin, petani dari Desa Labae yang balik bertanya kepada B2B pada Jumat pagi (19/12).
Aparat kabupaten hingga kelurahan di Soppeng dan personel TNI AD terlihat sibuk mempersiapkan kunjungan Menteri Pertanian RI Amran Sulaiman beserta Kepala Staf Angkatan Darat (Kasad) Jenderal TNI Gatot Nurmantyo dan Gubernur Sulawesi Selatan, Syahrul Yasin Limpo (SYL) yang dijadwalkan tiba dengan helikopter di Liliriaja pada pukul 10:30 Wita.
Kepala Subdirektorat Pengembangan Alat dan Mesin Pertanian di Direktorat Jenderal Sarana dan Prasarana (PSP) Kementerian Pertanian RI, Margono mengatakan Mentan Amran Sulaiman dijadwalkan menyerahkan sekitar 62 traktor tangan kepada kelompok tani di Kabupaten Soppeng sebagai bagian dari 869 unit traktor tangan dan 19 smelter untuk provinsi Sulawesi Selatan.
"Dana pengadaan berasal dari dana kontigensi untuk Kementerian Pertanian mendukung pencapaian swasembada pangan. Selain Sulawesi Selatan, ada 12 provinsi lain yang mendapatkan dana kontigensi," kata Margono yang mengaku sudah 13 hari berada di Soppeng untuk mempersiapkan kegiatan tersebut.
Selain Soppeng, Mentan Amran Sulaiman juga menyerahkan 45 traktor tangan kepada kelompok tani di Kabupaten Bone, dan kegiatannya dipusatkan di kampung halamannya di Dusun Dekko, Desa Mappesangka, Kecamatan Ponre, Kabupaten Bone.
Soppeng, South Sulawesi (B2B) - Residents in Soppeng, notably in the Liliriaja subdistrict rushed to the main square at the center the subdistrict capital. Soppeng district which is in the middle of South Sulawesi province will be arrival of important guests from Jakarta, capital of Indonesia.
"I was heard, agriculture minister and the governor will be here to use helicopters. That´s why we came. Where you from?" Samsudin said, the farmers of the Labae village, who instead turned to ask the B2B on Friday morning (19/12).
Civil servants in the district to subdistrict and the village in Soppeng, with Indonesian army personnel, known as TNI, were busy preparing the visit of Agriculture Minister Amran Sulaiman, the Chief of Army Staff Gen. Gatot Nurmantyo, and South Sulawesi Governor Syahrul Yasin Limpo are scheduled to arrive by helicopter in Liliriaja on at 10:30 local time.
Head of Sub Directorate of Development and Agricultural Machinery Equipment in the Directorate General of Infrastructures in Indonesian Agriculture Ministry, Margono said minister is scheduled to hand over 62 hand tractors to farmers´ groups in Soppeng as part of the 869 units of hand tractors and 19 smelters for South Sulawesi province.
"Procurement funds derived from the contingency fund for Agriculture Ministry to support the achievement of self-sufficiency. Besides South Sulawesi, there are 12 other provinces are getting contingency fund," Margono said, who admitted he had 13 days in Soppeng to prepare the event.
Besides Soppeng, minister Amran Sulaiman handed 45 hand tractors to farmers´ groups in Bone District, and its activity was centered in his hometown of Dekko hamlet, Mappesangka village, Ponre subdistrict, Bone district.
