Two regencies receive coastal areas’ empowerment funds

Two Bali’s regencies, Klungkung and Buleleng get allocation funds from the central government to empower peoples at coastal areas. “The two regencies receive the funds for this year’s budget,” said the head of Bali’s Fishery and Marine Authority, Ida Bagus Wisnawa Manuaba, recently here. He said that the funds could be used as capitals for joint businesses in upping the welfares of peoples at coastal areas, who generally depend on fishing for their lives (as fishermen).

The funds, which are managed by fishermen groups in forms of cooperatives’ managements, will be directed to establish the facilities needed by the coastal areas’ peoples in improving their lives’ standard.
Accompanied by his staff, the subhead of resources Saleh Purwanto, Wisnawa, added that all the funds had been realized and were well used, with monitoring conducted by the regency and province.

The issuance of funds a year earlier reached out four regencies from the proposed six. A regency got as much as Rp 750 million.
“The empowerment’s fund for regency now is Rp 900 million or added by Rp 150 million, but the number of regencies receiving the funds is lessening,” said Wisnawa.
He expected the funds to be able giving a positive contribution to fishermen who all this time were living hurting lives.

A group of fishermen has members some 20 to 100 people. To develop business the group then is forming LEPPM3 (an institution for economic empowerment).
The institution mentors all activities of the members beginning from fishing to joint marketing. Before receiving financial assistances the earnings of a fisherman a month was Rp 420,000, then is increasing to Rp 1 million per person a month.
Fishermen’s incomes, ahead, were expected to keep on climbing, said Wisnawa. *pry/ant

DON’T JUST GIVE THE FISH-Poor people indeed need to be empowered to eradicate poverty more permanently.

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