Liputan6.com, Jakarta The chairman of the Cooperative Council of Indonesia (DEWAS) of cooperatives (Dekopin) said that Abdullah recalled the importance of cooperatives as a popular effort.
As for this, he transferred in memory of the national cooperative day that falls today, Saturday, July 12, 2025.
He said that the cooperative movement from the very beginning was integrated with the spirit of the national struggle, where, thanks to the thought of the first vice -president of Indonesia, Mohammad Hatt, who made cooperatives the economic movement of the people and became one of the important pillars in national economic development.
“Cooperatives are growing from the enthusiasm of people in order to independently gather in economic activity. Cooperatives are collected as a collection of people, but the position of equivalent members of the cooperative does not differ depending on the amount of capital deposits, such as the company. From the capital collected, the cooperative built a business that at least serves its own members, ”said in his statement on Saturday (12/202).
The chairman of the DPR budget agency (Banggar) said, said Abdullah, said that cooperatives have become a means of education and collecting people, and not just economic issues, but also self -development through various educational events and the construction of communal ties to realize a wider movement of social changes.
“Cooperatives as agents and development pillars. With the expansion of cooperative movement, economic activity will also expand. The collected capital is more, but belongs to many people, so cooperative movements.
The chairman of DPP PDI Perjuangan (PDIP) appreciated that cooperatives are the most specific manifestation of the Punkasil economy. Where the values of Pankasils are in the practice of cooperatives.
“In the cooperative, there is mutual assistance, economic efforts are prepared by joint capital and for joint prosperity, decision -making is carried out democratically, because all members of their positions are equal regardless of their capital deposits,” said.
However, with all the values and practice of the ideal cooperative, he continued, there are still many Indonesian cooperatives that are not easy.
