JAKARTA – Village officials must have a vision in their duties. This was stated by the Director General of the Directorate General of Village Government Development (Ditjen Bina Pemdes) of the Ministry of Home Affairs (Kemendagri) Eko Prasetyanto Purnomo Putro in the opening ceremony of the Training of Trainer (ToT) Village Officials Training (basic) at the Novotel Hotel, Jakarta.
“Such volatile conditions must be confronted with a vision. We must have forward thinking. That’s why this training must be useful,” he said.
Eko said his party through the Village Governance Strengthening and Developing Program (P3PD) will create human resources (HR) who have the quality and capacity to deal with this situation.
Even though it is very complex, Eko is optimistic that P3PD will definitely succeed in facing big challenges in realizing good governance.
It is known that P3PD is a collaboration between the Indonesian government and the World Bank (World Bank).
This program aims to train village government officials so they can make good village spending.
Because, through good village spending, the welfare of communities can be improved.
“Fortunately we have P3PD so we can train village officials,” he said.
Village officials training is planned to be attended by more than 33,000 villages.
On that occasion, Eko hoped that the training participants would learn about methodology and substance.
Eko also hoped that the trainees can transfer their knowledge in an easier language.
“It’s very easy to make easy things difficult. But to make difficult things easy, that’s difficult,” he said.
He hoped that this ToT will also be the starting point for the implementation of the next Basic PAD ToT with participants from provincial and district/city regional government officials, which will be held in 33 Provinces.
Eko added that developing the capacity of village government officials is one of the Ministry of Home Affairs’ priority agendas.
This is an agenda to accelerate quality improvement in governance, implementation of development, community development, and empowerment of village communities.
This is also in line with the vision and mission of President Joko Widodo to improve Human Resources to take advantage of the Demographic Bonus towards Golden Indonesia in 2045.
“Given the strategic position of the village government and the large number of targets that must be achieved, village government officials must be provided with complete information and adequate training in village governance,” he explained.(NEWS ADVERTORIAL)
