Conglomerates agree to set up partnership body
Conglomerates agree to set up partnership body
JAKARTA (JP): A task force, representing 79 big local
businesses, agreed yesterday to set up an organization to develop
partnerships with small businesses and cooperatives in a similar
arrangement to the Jimbaran group.
"We shall try to make the partnership program succeed
following the government's directives," Sukamdani Gitosardjono,
the chairman of the eleven-strong task force, said yesterday.
The task force was appointed by 79 big businesses at a
government-sponsored meeting Wednesday at the office of the
Minister of Cooperatives and Small Enterprises Subiakto
Tjakrawerdaya.
The 79 businesses include Mercu Buana group, Sahid, Matahari,
Gobel, Gramedia, Kalbe Farma, Bukaka, Kalimanis, Texmaco, Jan
Darmadi, Hadtex, ALatief Corp, Tamara, Mustika Ratu, Gunung Sewu
and Batik Keris.
The task force decided at its three-hour meeting at the Sahid
hotel yesterday to set up an organization called the Coordinating
Body for the Implementation of National Business Partnership
Program. It is separate to the Jimbaran group.
The Jimbaran group includes 48 tycoons who met in Jimbaran,
Bali, two years ago to work out tangible programs to help small
business and eradicate poverty.
Sukamdani said the new organization was not formed to compete
with the Jimbaran group.
"We shall cooperate with the Jimbaran group if we happen to
have similar programs," he said.
The Jimbaran group spent Rp 2.1 trillion (US$889) last year on
partnership programs with small businesses and cooperatives. But
Subiakto said earlier that four of the 48 tycoons had not started
their programs last year.
Sukamdani, who has become chairman of the new body's board of
patrons, said the task force had outlined the body's program and
chosen the body's organizing committee .
He said the task force had agreed to intensify and expand
partnerships with small businesses and cooperatives, and study
the government's economic policy in this five-year development
plan.
"We have all actually established partnerships with small
businesses. Now we want to make them more intensive," he said.
The partnerships, he said, would include managerial and
technical assistance. They would also provide small businesses
with low-interest loans.
The body would make a long-term program for until 2003, he
said.
The body's organizing committee includes Sukamdani, Mochtar
Mandala of Bank Duta as deputy chairman of its board of patrons,
and Sjukur Pudjiadi of Pudjiadi & Son Estate and Tay Juhana of
Pulau Sambu group as members of the board of patrons.
The meeting selected Kusumo AM of Catur Yasa group and
Noorbasha Djunaid of GKBI Investment to chair the body and Hari
Darmawan of Matahari and Samadikun Hartono of Modern group as its
vice chairmen.
Its secretary is Fathur Rochman of Bangun Tjipta group who
will be assisted by Achmad Kalla of Bukaka group.
The body's treasurers are Mooryati Sudibyo of Mustika Ratu and
Rachmat Gobel of Gobel group. (jsk)