"The city administration highly appreciates CCDP-IFAD for supporting the project," Bitung Mayor Maxmiliaan Jonas Lomban said here on Monday.
He explained CCDP-IFAD aims to increase the income of the local people in Bitung coastal areas.
Lomban added the program emphasizes the marketing and the improvement of local products, and it provides business facilities and cooperation with the players in Bitung and other regions in Indonesia.
Overall, he said, the project is aimed at reducing poverty and increasing economic growth for the local people in coastal areas and small islands.
Since 2013 the project has been targeting 180 coastal villages in 12 districts / cities which are generally located in eastern of Indonesia.
Among them are Merauke (Papua), Yapen (West Papua), Ternate (North Maluku), Ambon and Southeast Maluku (Maluku), Kupang (East Nusa Tenggara), Lombok Barat (West Nusa Tenggara), Bitung (North Sulawesi), North Gorontalo (Gorontalo), Pare-Pare and Makassar (South Sulawesi), Kubu Raya (West Kalimantan) and Badung (Bali).
Those districts and cities serve as a center of learning.(*)
Editor: Heru Purwanto
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