Palembang, The Indonesia Post – Acting Governor of South Sumatra Agus Fatoni received an audience from the Canadian Embassy Delegation led by Head of Development Kevin Tokar accompanied by Senior Development Officer COOPERATION Hari Basuki, International Program Assistant Zulyan Hendra, Director of Icraf Sonya Dewi, Director of Icraf South Sumatra David Susanto with the aim of framework for discussions related to programs in collaboration between the Canadian government and the Government of South Sumatra which are already running through the sustainable landscape for livelihood in Indonesia land live South Sumatra program at Griya Agung, Friday (3/5/2024).
At the meeting, Fatoni stated that after meeting with the Canadian Embassy and also from Icraf discussing the development of activities carried out in South Sumatra Province, the Canadian Government through Ikraf is helping to provide assistance to villages in South Sumatra in order to deal with change.
“So villages are given education, given seeds, given methods and so on in order to overcome the climate, including making compost. How to plant and so on and this is done in several villages in South Sumatra. “Thank you for the cooperation that has been carried out so far and this is very important to support joint government programs in dealing with climate change, including improving community welfare and of course having an impact on development results in villages,” said Fatoni.
Fatoni hopes that this program can be continued, later it can be replicated, it can be reproduced, it can be replicated and it can also collaborate with universities in South Sumatra, it can collaborate with companies, with institutions in South Sumatra. So that these good results can also be made for other villages.
“Furthermore, we have also said that South Sumatra is the province with the greatest potential, it has a very large number of people, including the largest in Indonesia, but I have described one by one the potential that wants to get involved in mining. The district’s plantation potential in the agricultural sector is quite large and also the land Our peat is also quite extensive and there are quite extensive mangroves. “All of this can be utilized and optimized so that the results can be useful for the user area. It can be useful for you. Of course there will be a contribution,” he concluded.
Also present were Assistant I for Government and Social Welfare Drs Edward Chandra, MH, Head of South Sumatra Provincial Bappeda Regina Ariyanti. (ojn/ril)
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