These 10 pilot villages will be models to inspire villages across Indonesia in organizing clean village governance
Jakarta (ANTARA) - Some 10 villages have become anti-corruption pilot villages, which is a form of the villagers' involvement to prevent corruption, Villages, Development of Disadvantaged Regions, and Transmigration Minister Abdul Halim Iskandar stated.

"These 10 pilot villages will be models to inspire villages across Indonesia in organizing clean village governance," he noted through a statement, Tuesday.

The 10 chosen anti-corruption villages comprise Pakatto Village (South Sulawesi), Kamang Hila Village (West Sumatera), Hanura Village (Lampung), Mungguk Village (West Kalimantan), Cibiru Wetan Village (West Java).


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There are also Banyubiru Village (Central Java), Sukojati Village (East Java), Kutuh Village (Bali), Kumbang Village (West Nusa Tenggara), and West Batusoko Village (East Nusa Tenggara).

Almost all ministries and institutions are committed to assisting in the villagers' development and empowerment process, he said while attending the unveiling of the 10 anti-corruption pilot villages in Banyubiru Village, Central Java.

One of the institutions is the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) that initiated the anti-corruption village program.

"This collaboration is very important. This is because it is impossible for us to handle 74,961 villages across Indonesia by ourselves with their various problems and culture," the minister remarked.

These issues will be resolved better or quicker through the involvement of KPK in various development programs in villages, he remarked.

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On the occasion, the minister also elaborated on the relation between monitoring in village development and village Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that contain 18 courses of village development.

"This starts from the realization of village without poverty, quality village education, to the 18th point that is dynamic village institution and adaptive village culture," he noted.

"The last part means that development in villages should be designed, implemented, monitored, and evaluated based on local culture," he added.

Meanwhile, Chief of KPK Firli Bahuri expects that the anti-corruption village program can turn villages into locations clean from corruption.

"Anti-corruption culture is born from the villagers' level and continues to spread to higher government level," he remarked.


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