HUT Korpri, Mentan Bertemu Nur Agis Aulia, Sarjana UGM yang jadi Petani di Banten
Indonesian Minister Proud of Agis Aulia, a College Graduate Who Chose to be a Farmer
Reporter : Gusmiati Waris
Editor : M. Achsan Atjo
Translator : Dhelia Gani
Senin, 30 November 2015
Mentan Andi Amran Sulaiman (tengah) bersama Nur Agis Aulia (kanan) dan Mentan bersama rekan penyuluh pertanian di Konsel, Sultra, dan Agis di peternakannya (Foto2: Amran Sulaiman & B2B)

Jakarta (B2B) - Menteri Pertanian RI, Andi Amran Sulaiman mengapresiasi pilihan Nur Agis Aulia, sarjana cumlaude dari Universitas Gajah Mada (UGM) menjadi petani ketimbang menjadi pegawai BUMN karena prihatin pada nasib petani Indonesia yang rata-rata hidup miskin.

Mentan Amran Sulaiman mengundang Nur Agis Aulia asal Serang, Banten yang diketahui kiprahnya melalui tayangan Kick Andy di Metro TV pada Minggu (29/11) yang berhasil mengembangkan pertanian terpadu halamannya melalui kerja sama dengan petani.

"Saya sudah ketemu yang bersangkutan, yang tayang di Kick Andy kemarin," kata Mentan via pesan singkat disertai foto dirinya bersama Agis setelah upacara HUT Korpri di Kementerian Pertanian RI pada Senin pagi (30/11).

Respons cepat dari Mentan Amran Sulaiman mengundang Agis merupakan komitmen sang menteri untuk mendukung pencapaian swasembada pangan yang dicanangkan oleh Presiden RI Joko Widodo dalam tiga tahun ke depan, terhadap semangat dan kerja keras Agis untuk menginspirasi generasi muda khususnya sarjana untuk kembali ke desa membangun pertanian nasional.

Sebagaimana diketahui, Amran Sulaiman juga putra desa dari Bone, Sulawesi Selatan yang menempuh kuliah di Fakultas Pertanian Universitas Hasanuddin (Unhas) Makassar, dan kemudian setelah lulus kuliah sebagai sarjana pertanian memilih menjadi penyuluh pertanian di Kecamatan Konawe Selatan, Kabupaten Kolaka pada 1996.

Dalam kunjungan kerjanya di Sulawesi Tenggara pada akhir Oktober 2015, Mentan sempat bertemu dengan rekan-rekan kerjanya semasa menjadi penyuluh pertanian di Konawe Selatan yang kini berkembang menjadi kabupaten.


Jakarta (B2B) - Indonesian Agriculture Minister, Andi Amran Sulaiman appreciate the choice of Nur Agis Aulia, graduate cum laude from the University of Gajah Mada (UGM) who choose to be farmers rather than being employees of Indonesian state-owned enterprises, which concerned the Indonesian farmers who mostly live in poverty.

Minister Sulaiman then invited Mr Aulia of Serang district, Banten province was he knew through the Kick Andy talkshow in Metro TV on Sunday evening (29/11), Mr Agis succeeded in developing integrated farming in his village through the cooperation with farmers.

"I´ve met him, a college graduate who chose to be a farmer, which aired on Kick Andy talk on yesterday evening," Minister Sulaiman said via short messages with photos of himself with Agis after the anniversary of the Indonesian Civil Servants Corps in his office in Jakarta on Monday morning (30/11).

Quick response of Mr Sulaiman invite Mr Aulia is the commitment of the minister to support the achievement of food self-sufficiency which is proclaimed by the President Joko Widodo in the next three years, the spirit and hard work of Agis to inspire young people, especially scholars Indonesia back to the village to build smallholder agriculture.

As is known, Minister Sulaiman also country boy of Bone district, South Sulawesi province, who later studied at the Faculty of Agriculture in Makassar´s Hasanuddin University, and after graduating from college and then chose to become agricultural extension workers in South Konawe sub-district of Kolaka district, Southeast Sulawesi in 1996.

Within his working visit in Southeast Sulawesi province in late October, Minister Suleiman met with his co-workers during become agricultural extension workers in South Konawe which is now developed into district.
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