Regency gives goats to low-income folks

Regency gives goats to low-income folks

YOGYAKARTA: The Sleman regency administration has found a
unique way to help eradicate poverty and improve people's welfare
in the regency: by distributing goats to the people.

Under the plan, the regency allocated Rp 6 billion (roughly
US$646,000) from its budget to buy over 20,000 goats for a
revolving goat "fund". The goats are distributed to farmers, who
must "pay" back the regency with a healthy goat in two years.

"Within two years, the farmers will return the goats and those
will be distributed again to the needy," Sleman regent Ibnu
Subiyanto told The Jakarta Post on Monday.

"The efforts will also help crop farmers, who can use the goat
excrement as organic fertilizer," he said. -- JP