Jokowi stated that his administration would revive the faded mutual cooperation spirit in rural development. Each party was used to working separately in recent years, when the central government had its own programs and so did the provincial government.

"The point is to have mutual cooperation between the central government, provincial government, district, state, private and also society, farmers, fishermen, SMEs [small and medium enterprises, and others," Jokowi said during ‘Synergized-Actions for the People's Economy’ program launched on Monday in Brebes, Central Java.

To ensure the implementation of the project, Jokowi promised to conduct regular checks. "I will continue to check it in my own way, either with the intelligence agency, or by myself by coming straight away. I'll check everything," he asserted.

The synergy program, Jokowi explained, aimed to solve problems that have been choking the farmers, such as over land certification, access to finance, supply of quality seeds, supply of production tools and equipment and also post-harvest problems.

He underlined that many farmers in Indonesia have been trapped into using loan sharks because of the minimal access they have to financing as they have no assets to serve as debt collateral, or they are unable to show legal certificates of land ownership for getting bank loans.

To overcome these problems, Jokowi warned the National Land Agency (BPN) to simplify and accelerate the process of issuing land certificates. (ags)

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