Small-scale business

Small-scale business

From Pikiran Rakyat

Referring to the article published in Pikiran Rakyat, Oct. 11,
1994, headed Pengusaha Penerima Dana BUMN, Dipungli (Illegal
levies collected from entrepreneurs receiving state owned
companies funding). As an observer of development of small-scale
business, I would like to make the following comments.

* In the context of realizing a just and prosperous society,
development of small-scale businesses constitutes part of the
program for eradicating poverty. The whole society has the
responsibility to participate in this effort. The involvement of
state owned companies in this program is an honor to the
business.

* The fund obtained from the state owned company should be
properly used so as to bring about great advantage. To this end,
cooperation of all parties is essential.

* Cooperation must be taken to mean that it should not create
a new bureaucracy, which only tends to make distribution of the
fund difficult. This means that additional cost in obtaining the
fund must be eliminated.

* The objective of the development of small-scale businesses
is to create healthy business relations, so that small companies
may have the opportunity to accumulate larger funds which
hopefully make them grow to be more competitive. Therefore, we
are of the opinion that any form of illegal cost is counter
productive to the development of small-scale businesses.

RADHAR TRI BASKORO

Bandung, West Java