--- In [email protected], "Edi Tarigan (aka Mosokul)"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Mjj Carlos ras kita kerina, 
> 
> Kan memang terbukti koperasi itu adalah alat yang handal untuk 
> memajukan masyarakat... ;) Contohnya sudah beberapa kali disampaikan 
> melalui email2 saya terdahulu. Email terakhir yg kukirim, memberikan 
> informasi tentang koperasi di Thailand... negara yang dekat dgn 
> negara kita... supaya contohnya tidak jauh2 amat gitu maksudku... :) 
> 
> Mudah2an ada "pemimpin" atau "calon pemimpin" kita yang mempunya 
> perspektif yg sama dan melihat bahwa koperasi bisa menjadi solusi utk 
> mengangkat kesejahteraan masyarakat Indonesia... Kalau ada "pemimpin" 
> yang membawa ide dan solusi ini dalam pemilihan tahun depan, perlu 
> juga rasanya didukung. 
> 

mantan pemimpin sudah ada , dan calon pemimpin pembawa 'revivalism'
kepada kopeasi juga sudah ada cuman saya susah bilangnya ke milis ini
karena nanti dikira sektarian.

Berikut ada artikel dari New York Times tahun 1951 bagaimana Indonesia
dulu banget gencar sekali dengan program Koperasi. Mungkin bisa
diduga-duga kenapa terus koperasi kendor setelah Hatta resigned
 :-) :-)


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http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70715FF3B591B7B93C2A8178BD95F458585F9&oref=login

New York Times, Published  Oct 10, 1951

Cooperatives Gain in New Indonesia

Fast-Growing Movement Held Important in Combating Red Moves to Disrupt
Economy

JAKARTA, Indonesia, Oct. 9-- A fast-growing cooperative movement is
becoming increasingly important in Indonesia's efforts to obtain
social stability and improve living conditions. The cooperatives are
viewed as a significant factor in countering communist moves to
disrupt economy and foment strige and popular discontent.

The Government is utilizing Economic Cooperation Administration aid to
help develop cooperatives. WHile E.C.A. counterparts funds will go to
establish a system of cooperative banks, other E.C.A. funds will
finance study and trips by 24 Indonesian cooperative officials to USA
and other countries. Meanwhile, a US expert is working here to hep the
movement expand.

Indonesia cooperatives are flourishing mostly in rural areas. At
present day they are devoted mainly to providing credit for farmers
and small traders. The grip of money lenders who charge rates up to
500 percent a year is bein broken in many villages.

Four thousand cooveratives with roughly a million members now are
functioning. The rate of growth is indicated by the fact that 3,000
have come into existence since Indonesia gained independence less than
two years ago. Credit groups have build a total capital to the
equivalent of more than $3,000,000 of which only a fraction has come
from the government.

In the last year, the Government has setup 19 schools to train
cooperative organizer. 2000 students residing in primitive dormitories
have gone through a month of thorough courses. So tough is the
training that one third of the students have flunked.

The movement's leader are planning on 1,000,000 more members in the
next year or two and will extend the schools to train 6,000 additional
entrants. Six government-appointed aides will leave Friday to study
cooperatives in USA. Among them are two men who will become heads of
the cooperative bank system.

The creator of Indonesia cooperative movement is vice President
MOHAMMED HATTA who started the enterprise many years ago on patterns
that he had studied in Denmark and other European countries. Most of
the countries cooperatives were wiped out during the Japaneese war but
their revival and expansion has become a major Government endeavor.

The traditional communal character of Indonesia rural society lends
itself to modern cooperatives. The movement appeals to the Indonesian
as a way of escaping the toils of the Chinese money lenders and
middlemen who control most of the lending of small capital.

New York Times, Published  Oct 10, 1951


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