Grobogan – The formation of the Railway Maintenance Center cooperative must be based on the intention to help its members and more broadly to help the general public, at least that is the hope of the Head of the Railway Maintenance Center M Andi Hary Murty at the meeting of the Railway Maintenance Center cooperative formation on Monday (8/11/2021) in the Office Hall of the Railway Maintenance Center. Also present at the meeting Head of Section Health Supervision, Examination & Assessment, Grobogan Regency Cooperatives and SMEs Office Eko Ichsan as resource persons as well as companions in the formation of cooperatives in the future.

 

"I, all of us who are the initiators of the formation of cooperatives, will certainly be proud if with the presence of this cooperative, friends can be helped in terms of the economy and other things," said Andi on the sidelines of the discussion on the formation of cooperatives with prospective managers and supervisors of cooperatives as well as the founders who were present. on that occasion.

 

All parties present are committed to presenting cooperatives with a family-based principle in accordance with the aim of advancing the welfare of their members. As stated by a resource person from the Grobogan Regency Cooperatives and SMEs Office Eko Ichsan who is familiar with Ichsan's greeting, "the first goal of cooperatives is to advance cooperatives first so that prosperity increases," explained Ichsan.

 

As an official in charge of supervising cooperatives in Grobogan Regency, Ichsan often encounters various forms of cases of misappropriation of cooperative management carried out by unscrupulous individuals with the sole purpose of commercialization. Learning from these cases, Ichsan hopes that the management of the Railway Maintenance Center cooperative will be in accordance with the values ??of good governance,

 

The management of cooperatives must comply with the provisions guided by Law Number 25 of 1992 concerning Cooperatives, Law Number 11 of 2020 concerning Job Creation, and pay attention to the management rules that have been stipulated in Government Regulation Number 7 of 2021 concerning Ease, Protection, and Empowerment of Cooperatives and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, then Permenkumham Number 14 of 2019, to avoid criminal snares in the cooperative sector.

 

"President Jokowi recently intensified the movement of MSMEs, for economic recovery in the real sector, the presence of this cooperative is in line with his spirit, because cooperatives can become friendly institutions for MSMEs, for that as a cooperative that is just born, you should look for a name first, don't look for it. , if the name is good, will advance in the future, "said Ichsan.

 

As an economic institution that provides capital lending services, it is better if cooperatives that are in the early stages of being formed, have to build a reputation first, and put aside their orientation to just looking for profit. The spirit that the cooperative wants to build is to maintain the sustainability of the cooperative itself, not just profit being pursued. Cooperatives that already have a good name will always be in demand by the community.

 

Maintaining good cooperative governance is something Ichsan always reminds me of in managing cooperatives. As an echelon within Grobogan Regency, Ichsan is also a member of the Central Java Province Investment Alert Task Force, which has recently been more focused on handling illegal online loans (loans).

 

"Regarding the rampant lending that is troubling the community, there is a modus operandi that uses inactive, engineered cooperatives to carry out business activities in the form of loans," said Ichsan.

 

Cooperative is a business entity which is a people's economic movement with the principle of kinship. Cooperative management needs to be maintained properly, according to the five cooperative principles, first, cooperative members are voluntary and open, the more members will strengthen the cooperative entity. Second, cooperative management is carried out democratically, meaning that cooperatives exist from members, for and by members. "All performance that regulates are members, all members are the same, management is the one who carries out the mandate," explained Ichsan.

 

Third, the distribution of SHU (Remaining Operating Results) is divided according to the services of each member. The distribution is not the same, depending on the activity in terms of savings, as well as contributions in the form of financing loans. Fourth, the provision of remuneration in proportion to the contribution of members. This fourth principle is the character possessed by cooperatives, not just looking for profit, the most important thing is that members are committed to the cooperative, for the sustainability of the institution in the future. "The presence of a well-managed cooperative can help its members or the community to avoid various financing schemes that tend to be burdensome," said Ichsan. So that cooperatives provide a function to provide more services to the community as an alternative to trustworthy financing institutions.

 

Fifth, is the principle of independence, the source of funding for cooperatives as stated in the legislation is from members, so that cooperative operations run independently by their members through cooperative management as stated in the results of the RAT (Annual Member Meeting).

 

One of the accountability mechanisms in the management of cooperatives can be carried out by holding a RAT, in which in addition to listening to the management's report for one year, members can ask for information from the LPJ Management and LPH Supervisors. It is hoped that the Railway Maintenance Cooperative Cooperative can develop rapidly as conveyed by the Cooperatives and SMEs Office of Grobogan Regency, "I want it not too long to be able to increase to become a national cooperative, ask for the support of extraordinary members who started the history of the establishment of this cooperative", Ichsan hoped representing the Department of Cooperatives and SMEs in Grobogan Regency.

 

Inter-institutional communication is always carried out by the Railway Maintenance Center in order to create synergy between government institutions, which in the above report is a form of communication between central government agencies and local governments. (yog)