Expert: Regional Governments Key to Accelerating President Prabowo's Programmes

At the implementation level, synchronisation, coordination, synergy, and collaboration are needed between ministries and agencies and regional governments, whether district, city, or provincial administrations, and even down to the village level.

Bengkulu (ANTARA) - Public Policy and Economics Expert Anzori Tawakal believes regional governments play an important role in accelerating the implementation of various programmes under President Prabowo Subianto so that their benefits can be felt more quickly by the public.

“At the implementation level, synchronisation, coordination, synergy, and collaboration are needed between ministries and agencies and regional governments, whether district, city, or provincial administrations, and even down to the village level,” Anzori said in Bengkulu on Friday.

According to him, President Prabowo’s government policies are fundamentally on the right track. However, the success of the programmes is not determined solely by central government policy.

Support from regional governments is necessary because many national programmes directly affect the public, including housing development, the Red and White Village/Sub-district Cooperatives, the development of fishing villages, agriculture, livestock farming, food, irrigation, and basic infrastructure development.

“As we can see in the context of housing development, the target is 3 million homes, and now almost 600,000 homes have been built for residents in need of subsidised housing. In this case, land provision, land acquisition, and licensing from regional governments are certainly very much needed to support this subsidised housing development programme,” he said.

Similar support is needed in the implementation of the Red and White Village/Sub-district Cooperatives located in sub-district and village areas. Regional governments need to provide support so that the cooperatives can develop and operate independently.

According to Anzori, provincial and district/city governments need to build synergy with the parties responsible for implementing the programmes so that the facilities and programmes built by the central government can be optimally utilised by the public.

“This means that fishing villages cannot stand alone. There cannot be only a national programme; regional governments must also mobilise their fishing communities and coastal residents to make use of the facilities of fishing ports and all the amenities built there,” he said.

Anzori believes the same pattern applies to programmes in agriculture, livestock farming, food security, and irrigation development. All these sectors require the involvement of regional governments so that national programmes can be translated according to the needs of the community.

“The policies are already on the right track; they need process and time. Besides that, at the implementation level, synchronisation, coordination, synergy, and collaboration are needed between ministries and agencies and regional governments. Good synergy and good regional support will accelerate the benefits felt by the public,” he said.

The President said these policies are being implemented across various sectors to resolve the nation’s problems, including those that have persisted for decades.

A number of policies mentioned include food self-sufficiency, simplification of fertiliser regulations, energy self-sufficiency through B50, the nutritious meals programme, downstreaming, and social assistance.