Economist calls Urban also needs red and white cooperatives to prevent poverty, this is the concept

Tuesday, June 10, 2025 – 17:31 Wib

Yakarta, alive – He revealed that the Senior Institute of Economist Institute for Development of Economics and Finance (Indef) revealed that the Indonesian population lives in the city that reaches 59 percent or up to 167 million people. Poverty in the city will be even greater, and poverty relief programs are needed, one of which is the red and white cooperative of the city.

Didik estimates that the population lives in the city in 2045 to reach 70 percent. Therefore, the poverty relief program must be executed in cities.

“The tendency to increase the urban population will be even greater with a fairly rapid increase in urbanization growth. Even in 2045, the population of urban areas can reach 70 percent,” Didik said in his statement on Tuesday, June 10, 2025.

According to Didik technology, financial systems, innovation and entrepreneurship in cities are better prepared. He gave an example, the current Gojek business only benefits the company and leaves the destination and future of the main stakeholders of the driver.

Didik said, with the current business model, drivers will be forever poor and will never increase the vertical class. Therefore, Gojak is considered to be transformed into cooperatives.

“In the current government ideology, which directs a market socialism system, Gojak will be better built and transformed into cooperatives. Drivers will later become the owner of their commercial entities, namely cooperatives, platforms and their applications are carried out by cooperative management,” he explained.

In addition, the government through and between interviews can create a digital transport platform with a cooperative model business, which will then be owned by hundreds of thousands or millions of motorcycle and cars drivers. He considered that this was more in line with the current ideology of the government.

“The available examples are cooperative walkplatform Shared trip Based on the cooperative. This digital transport cooperative is in New York City, which is property and managed by drivers, not large digital technology companies such as Uber and Lyft, “he explained.

According to Didik, compared to the idea of ​​the red and white cooperative, the idea of ​​digital transformation is much more feasible. Although the red and white cooperative remains important, transport cooperatives will be more economically feasible.

“The red and white cooperative is still important to advance in the countryside. But this digital transport cooperative will be cheaper and more commercial. Because urban communities are also more in number than rural communities now,” he explained.

Although rural cooperatives such as red and white cooperatives remain important in the distribution of logistics and empowerment of the village, the digital cooperative model for large cities is also considered strategic to respond to the challenges of inequality in the era of the digital economy.

Didik also stressed that President Prabowo’s economic policy was strongly influenced by Professor Sumitro Djohadikusumo, a national economic figure that is also Pabowo’s father.

“President Prabowo must be influenced by the thoughts of Prof. Sumitro. Sumitro’s ideology is difficult to separate the style of the nationalism that places the Pancasila economy as a manifestation of the values ​​of the Constitution of 1945. Economic change must be directed to the interests of people with a solid state role,” Didik explained.

In his book Paradox Indonesia, Pabowo emphasized the importance of the constitutional economy, an economic approach that prioritizes social justice and the active role of the State in the protection of people of the structural inequality of free markets.

“The business model (Gojak) that does not include the driver as the main interested party is a reflection of pure capitalism. The Pabowo government emphasizes market socialism,” Didik said.