ABRI learns retail business

ABRI learns retail business

JAKARTA (JP): About 120 personnel from the Armed Forces'
cooperatives in Jakarta, Tangerang and Bekasi are taking part in
a two-week management course here.

The course, opened Monday by Jakarta Military Command Chief of
Staff Brig. Gen. Sudi Silalahi, aims at providing the personnel
with basic skills of retail and accounting.

The course was decided upon after Minister of Cooperatives and
Small Enterprises Subiakto Tjakrawerdaja appointed ABRI's Jakarta
Cooperative as coordinator in the distribution of basic
commodities to the needy.

ABRI cooperatives previously helped distribute staple foods
sold at reduced prices nationwide to help alleviate people's
economic burden during the economic crisis.

In March, Defense Minister/Armed Forces Commander Gen. Wiranto
said that ABRI cooperatives helped control the prices of staple
foods.

The cooperatives will also distribute staple foods produced in
an agriculture project initiated by ABRI, which involves local
people and students.

Last month, 300 soldiers from the Jakarta Military Command
initiated a farming project in which idle plots of land in Bekasi
and Tangerang are used to produce crops. (ivy)