“Seize the Future of the Village” Started from IPB
Center for Agricultural and Rural Development Studies (PSP3), Institute for Research and Community Services (LPPM), Bogor Agricultural University (IPB) held a public lecture with a theme of “Merebut Masa Depan Desa / Seize the Future of the Village”, in the Auditorium of Common Class Room (CCR), Campus of IPB Dramaga, Bogor (16/12). Presented as a speaker was a member of DPR of RI Commission II, Budiman Sudjatmiko.
“Mr. Budiman Sudjatmiko is the actor who is the drafter of the Village Legislation,” said the moderator who was also the Head of PSP3 of LPPM of IPB, Dr. Sofyan Sjaf.
This activity was attended by various groups, ranging from the lecturers, the students, and the farmers. The Chief Executive, Multazam, said that the purpose of holding this event was as an effort for branding the students of IPB to get to know the ins and outs of the village directly from the expert. Thus, it could foster the motivation among the students to serve the community, especially the village.
In this public lecture, Budiman Sudjatmiko brought the material titled “Kemajuan Teknologi, Kesetaraan Akses, dan Kolaborasi / Technological Advances, Access Equality, and Collaboration”. “The village is the essence of a nation. Therefore, to build Indonesia can be started from the village. It is just, the current village problem is the access to the knowledge and the wealth, that is why it is compiled the Village Legislation,” he explained.
He said, the Village Legislation was created to provide the opportunities for the villages in Indonesia in order to seize a good future. The village had the human resources, the natural resources, and the place to develop and integrate into all these elements. The opportunities which were born with the resources owned in the next five years were the emergence of the intelligent people from the villages who would return to the villages and develop their villages.
The current technological advances could be utilized to build the village. The smart people like the students could provide the knowledge to the community and the villagers to make use of the technology, the internet, and the data. The village could develop the Village Owned Enterprise (BUMD) to manage the village’s finances, the benefits could be used to provide the scholarship to smart children to continue their schooling and the compensation for the retired workers who could not work. “If the village economy is digitized, Indonesia’s economic growth will increase by two percent. Building a village is not a short-term plan, it takes a long time, and it needs the collaboration from various parties, both from the government, the farmers, and the students,” he explained.(UAM/NM)
