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        "id": 2037275,
        "msgid": "bappenas-prepares-national-framework-for-community-empowerment-1791971444",
        "date": "2026-10-14 15:35:21",
        "title": "Bappenas Prepares National Framework for Community Empowerment",
        "author": "",
        "source": "CNBC",
        "tags": "",
        "topic": "Social Policy",
        "summary": "Bappenas is developing a national framework to align community empowerment programmes with Indonesia\u2019s development strategy, in collaboration with the coordinating minister and other stakeholders. The initiative comes as thousands of villages remain underdeveloped or without PLN electricity, while 12.58 million rural residents live in poverty.",
        "content": "<p>Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia \u2013 National Development Planning Minister and\nhead of the National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas) Rachmat\nPambudy said the government is preparing a national framework for\ncommunity empowerment. It will be drawn up in collaboration with\nCoordinating Minister for Community Empowerment Muhaimin Iskandar.<\/p>\n<p>The framework is intended to give community empowerment programmes\nclearer direction and make them part of national development strategies\nand policies. Technical ministries and agencies will contribute in line\nwith their respective mandates and capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis could include strengthening social capacity and\nentrepreneurship, and developing small businesses, including through the\nMinistry of Home Affairs and other ministries, to ensure that regional\ngovernments continue working with the central government on\ndevelopment,\u201d Rachmat said at the National Empowerment Dialogue on\nWednesday (14 October 2026).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI therefore invite all regional governments, businesses,\nuniversities, civil society organisations, communities and development\npartners to play an active role in drawing up and implementing this\npolicy document.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rachmat stressed that the government\u2019s development vision extended\nbeyond physical infrastructure to include empowering people. Buildings,\nroads and bridges would not last without people to maintain them, he\nsaid. Without empowered communities, investment in physical\ninfrastructure could ultimately be wasted.<\/p>\n<p>On the same occasion, Minister of Villages and Disadvantaged Regions\nYandri Susanto said his ministry had already undertaken community\nempowerment initiatives in villages. These include revitalising\nvillage-owned enterprises and establishing Merah Putih Village\/Urban\nWard Cooperatives; developing export-oriented villages; strengthening\nlocal food security; and promoting village self-sufficiency in energy,\nwater and food.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese initiatives are already widespread, and they are all part of\nan economic movement. Without empowerment, poverty and other problems\ncannot be fully resolved,\u201d Yandri said.<\/p>\n<p>However, Yandri said Indonesia still had 4,672 underdeveloped\nvillages and 4,694 severely underdeveloped villages. In addition, 5,758\nvillages have no access to electricity from state-owned utility PLN,\nwhile 12.58 million people in rural areas remain in poverty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no other answer than empowerment. We believe that if we\nresolve the problems facing Indonesia\u2019s villages, we will, in effect,\nresolve the problems facing the Republic,\u201d he said.<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/bappenas-prepares-national-framework-for-community-empowerment-1791971444",
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