National Economic Development through village society empowerment

By MG Ana Budi Rahayu

Since new order administation until now, issues concerning increasing of wellbeing of the peasants in the villages is dinamic. Whatever government’st policy to increase the peasants’ wellbeing often received critics and controversies from a number of parties. Some say the peasants as “grass root people” whose life is getting more pressurized and must become victim of the government’s economic policy. Now lets take look at back how is paddy basic price set, reducing subsidize fertilizer, hike fuel price and recently deals with import policy which is felt to be detrimental to the peasant’s wellfare.